Leshan dialect

Leshan
乐山话
Native to	China
Region	Shizhong District, Leshan Wutongqiao District Shawan District Qianwei County Muchuan County
Native speakers	(undated figure of 770,000^[citation needed])
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Ba–Shu (Disputed) Mandarin (Disputed) Southwestern? Sichuanese? Minjiang Leshan
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese Ba–Shu Chinese (Disputed) Middle Chinese (Disputed) Old Mandarin (Disputed)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	mjic
Glottolog	None

The Leshan dialect (simplified Chinese: 乐山话; traditional Chinese: 樂山話; pinyin: Lèshānhuà; Sichuanese Standard Chinese: No²san¹hua⁴; locally [nʊʔ˧sã˥xuɑ˨]) is the Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan and is a variety of Minjiang. It preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.

Phonology

There are a total of 20 initials in the Leshan dialect.^[1]

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Coronal	Alveolar	Alveolo-palatal	Velar
Plosive	plain	/p/ 贝			/t/ 得		/k/ 古
	aspirated	/pʰ/ 配			/tʰ/ 套		/kʰ/ 可
Affricate	plain			/ts/ 早		/tɕ/ 价
	aspirated			/tsʰ/ 草		/tɕʰ/ 巧
Nasal		/m/ 没		/n/ 路			/ŋ/ 我
Fricative	voiceless		/f/ 发	/s/ 速		/ɕ/ 小	/x/ 好
	voiced		/v/ 五	/z/ 认
Zero		∅ 衣

Notes

References

1. Lai, Xiangang 赖先刚 (2000). Lèshān fāngyán 乐山方言 (in Chinese). Chengdu: Bashu shushe. ISBN 7-80523-668-2.