A Study On Phonetic System Of The Newnameless Huizhou Rhyme Book

The nameless Huizhou rhyme book is a handwritten copy,which records Wuyuan dialect.The form of The nameless Huizhou rhyme book is similar to Guangyun,divids into4 volumes according to level tone,rising tone,departing tone,entering tone.It has a integrited phonetic system.Through the systematic study of the nameless rhyme book,this paper draws out its specific phonetic system and summarizes its characteristics.The nameless rhyme book has23 initials,18 rhyme 36 finals,6 tones.There are 12 main characteristics of the initial system,such as "The full voiced initials all become devoiced,and most full voiced plosives and affricates merge into aspirated devoiced consonants,but there are a few full voiced plosives and affricates merge into unaspirated devoiced consonants;Fei,Fu and Feng initials merge into one consonant;Ni initial belongs to Lai initial whenever before broad sound or fine sound".There are 15 main characteristics of the final system,such as "medieval Ru rhyme merge into Yin rhyme,and the stop ending of Ru rhyme is disappeared;Zhi she is confused with Yu she;the first grade and the third grade of Liu she are mixed".And there are 3 main characteristics of the tone system,including "medieval level tone has divided into two parts(Yinping and Yangping)according to the initials' nature;Yinshang comes from medieval clear rising tone and semi-voiced rising tone,but some medieval semi-voiced rising tone merges into Yangshang;The medieval clear departing tone merges into Yinqu,and the medieval entering tone merges into Yangqu".In addition,We have a shallow discussion on the existence of palatal sound in You rhyme.According to the imbalance of language development and modern dialect evidence,we can infer that You rhyme has palatal sound.This paper draw a simple comparison between the nameless rhyme book and the modern dialect of Ziyang town in Wuyuan County,which found the similarities and differences between them.There are many similarities,such as "All ancient full voiced initials have been clear;The characters of ancient Jian group and Yi initial read as broad sound in the first and second grade,read as fine sound in the third and fourth grade;The ancient Ru rhyme are transformed into the Yin rhyme,/-p/,/-t/,/-k/ disappeared;The characters of Guo she in first grade is as same as the characters of Jia she in second grade;level tone,rising tone and departing tone all divided into two parts according to voiceless or voicing the initials;The stop ending of ancient Ru rhyme disappeared,and all merge into Yangqu".At the same time,there are some differences,such as "The initials of Zhang group of the nameless Huizhou rhyme book has disappeared in Ziyang town dialect;The ending/-?/ of the nameless Huizhou rhyme book become a nasalization in Ziyang town dialect ".Besides,according to the internal system of the nameless rhyme book and the Ziyang town dialect,we can reconstruct the specific tone value of the phonetic system for the nameless rhyme book.