Unique Kunming dialect

Kunming dialect is the collective name of four districts in Kunming dialect. Kunming dialect has a unique accent and unique local sayings. If you are used to speaking your own dialect, do you want to learn other dialects? Let's learn Kunming dialect from Kunming culture and learn Kunming dialect together!

Language family classification: Sino-Tibetan language family-Chinese language family-Mandarin dialect-Southwest Mandarin-Yunnan dialect-Kunming dialect.

Mr. Luo Changpei used the Language of Yunnan to evaluate Yunnan dialect, saying that Kunming dialect is "concise in phonetics, elegant in vocabulary and fair in grammar". Although it is different from Wan Li in the Central Plains, its language is solid. "

speech sound

Kunming dialect has 20 consonants, 2 intermediate sounds and 16 vowels.

Consonants: 8 listed consonants: f[f], h[x], k[k], l[l], m[m], p[p], s[s], t[t], 8 unvoiced sounds: kh[kx], ph[px], SH [

Middle voice: y, w

Vowels: five single vowels: a, e, I, o, u, 1 1 compound vowels: ae, ah, an, ang, au, ei, en, eu, in, ong, ü n.

There are four tones in Kunming dialect: flat tone (tone 44), flat tone (tone 3 1), rising tone (tone 53) and falling tone (tone 2 12).

The pronunciation of some words in Kunming dialect is different between the old and new generations, such as: meat (old: ru3 1 new: reu2 12).

With the popularization of Putonghua, the pronunciation of Kunming dialect has been damaged to some extent. Such as: He (formerly: ho3 1 now: he3 1).