Phonetic Evolution of Putonghua in Taiwan Province

In phonetics, due to the mutual influence of local languages in Taiwan Province Province, the characteristics of "Taiwan Province Mandarin" are: (1) Generally speaking, "Chinese Pinyin: Zhi; ; Weimar pinyin: chih) is pronounced as (Chinese pinyin: zi; Weimar pinyin: tz)

(hanyu pinyin: late; ; Weimar Pinyin: ch'ih) pronounced ㄘ (Chinese Pinyin: CI; Weimar pinyin: tz')

(Chinese pinyin: stone; ; Weimar Pinyin: shih) pronounced ㄒ (Chinese Pinyin: si; Weimar pinyin: s) one,

When eng(ㄥ) and b-, p-, m-, f-, w- (Beng, Peng, Meng, Feng, Weng) are pinyin, they are usually pronounced as ong, which is recognized by the official universal pinyin scheme, but the phonetic symbol has not been modified, which may be related to the fact that the phonetic symbol has not set the "ong" sound. (But Taiwan Province dialect has phonetic symbols, which say "works").

Many people in Taiwan Province Province will not notice the misunderstanding of "eng". Wang Li, a linguist, points out that although most northern mandarin dialects are pronounced eng because of alienation, Sichuan dialect is pronounced ong, which he thinks is an assimilation. As many teachers of early Putonghua did not speak standard Beijing Putonghua, and most of them had a strong provincial accent, this phenomenon of Taiwan Province Putonghua was probably influenced by Sichuan dialect. Most people read the above content except the news announcer who was trained in the early stage.

Second,

Eng(ㄥ) and en(ㄣ) are indistinguishable. The most obvious example is the word "soldier". Both Mandarin and Taiwan Province Province use a flat voice to send "soldiers". However, even for people who are fluent in Taiwanese, Taiwanese Mandarin is often pronounced as "object" for some unknown reason. Other mandarin dialects, such as Sichuan dialect and Nanjing dialect, may also be influenced by Sichuan dialect or Nanjing dialect.