Comparative Study Of The Dialect Phonetics In Qinghai Ledu

Ledu is located in the eastern agricultural area of Qinghai.West is adjacent to Xining.East is close to Minhe.The Qingsha Mountain forms the boundary between Ledu and Hualong.Across the river from Ledu lies Huzhu.It is ninty-five kilometers from the provincial capital.There resides Han,Tibetan,Tu,Mongols and.other nations.The dialect belongs to Hezhou cluster in Zhongyuan Mandam,and it is very different from the Ping'an and Xining localism.Nianbo,Gaodian,Luhua are the paper's survey spots.Nianbo is not only the location of the district govemment,but also political,economy,culture center.The most important is that Nianbo dialect on behalf of the total Ledu dialect.Gaodian is in the west of the country twenty kilometers,and it is close to the Qinlong cluster dialect.Luhua is in the northeast of the country fifty kilometers,and it is close to Hezhou of Gansu.The all towns of Ledu are chain distributed along the Huangshui River on the map.From west to east respectively are Gaodian,Nianbo,Luhua,involes Ledu dialect The voice of the three survey spots are the paper's main object of studu.Analyzing phonetic and peripheral dialect severally.And then analyze the changing situation of their whole voice.The thesis is divided into six chapters.Chapter one mainly introduces human geographical situation,historical development,research status,method,siginificance of Qinghai and Ledu dialect.Chapter two,three and four are phonetic systems of three spots,analyze their phonological features,as well as compare with mediaeval times voice,after that summarizes evolovement rules.Chapter five discribes how to read through two letters of the three survey spots,in order to show some characters in the phonetic changes.Chapter six makes the three spots compare with each other,and compare with Linxia,Xining dialect severally at the same time.Horizontal ang vertical comparison,we can get a conclusion that Nianbo and Luhua belongs to Hezhou dialect,but Gaodian is close to Xining dialect what belongs to Qinlong cluster of Zhongyuan Mandarin.Gaodian dialect is a transitional dialect between Qinlong cluster and Hezhou cluster.