A Phonetic Study Of Hakka In Bibei, Ruyuan, Guangdong

This thesis has made the research on Hakka phonetic system of Bibei, Ruyuan, Guangdong.Select Bibei town as the survey site because it is rich in language resources: Hakka, MandarinChinese and Yao language. Based on this language environment we sort out the phonetic systemof Bibei Hakka. And we also have a special study on nasal endings in order to find out the rule ofevolution. We arrive at the following conclusions:1. Today at Bibei town the competition for these three languages (dialect) is very keen:Hakka dialect has deep root but lack of stamina. Mandarin Chinese catches up from behind andhas the potential replace it. Yao language has policy support and been emphasized by people.2. Bibei Hakka has18consonants (excluding zero initial),51finals (including a syllable)and6tones. Among them, Yang rhyme nasal consonant is changing, and showed the agedifference.3. The intensity degree of Bibei Hakka nasal ending influenced by the elements of internalsyllable (the front vowels, type of nasal ending and tone), language contact, age and gender.Show as: If the front vowel is u or i, the nasal ending is stronger than the front vowel is a, or.If the front vowel is i or, the nasal ending is weaker than the front vowel is u or. And nasalending “” is stronger than nasal ending “n”. Nasal ending of yinping (阴平) is the strongest, andyangping (阳平) is the weakest. What’s more, because of the influence of Mandarin Chinese inpronunciation, the nasal ending of middle-aged and young group is stronger than the old group.Women’s nasal ending is stronger than the men’s.