Da-Tong
Daye
Native toChina
RegionSoutheastern Hubei, eastern Hunan
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
ISO 639-6dton
GlottologNone

Da-Tong, sometimes called Daye (simplified Chinese: 大冶话; traditional Chinese: 大冶話) after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is spoken in Daye, in the southeastern part of Hubei province near the Jiangxi border, as well as in Xianning, Jiangyu, Puxin, Chongyang, Tongcheng, Tongshan, and Yangxin in Hubei, as well as in Huarong and bordering areas of eastern Hunan.

Sounds

The Daye variety will be taken as representative.

Consonants

Consonants of Daye Gan
  Bilabial Alveolar Alveolo-palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m ɲ ŋ  
Plosive voiceless unaspirated p t   k  
voiceless aspirated    
Affricate voiceless unaspirated   ts    
voiceless aspirated   tsʰ tɕʰ    
Fricative voiced   z ʑ    
voiceless f s ɕ   x
Lateral approximant   l      

Tones

Citation tones

Tone chart of Daye Gan
Tone numberTone nameTone contour
1 yin ping (陰平)˨ (2)
2 yang ping (陽平)˧˩˧ (313)
3 shang sheng (上聲)˦˧ (43)
4 qu sheng (去聲)˧˥ (35)
5 ru sheng (入聲)˩˧ (13)


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