Sanming dialect
The Sanming dialect is a dialect of Central Min spoken in urban areas of Sanming, a prefecture-level city in Western Fujian Province, China.
Phonology
The Sanming dialect has 18 initials, 37 rimes and 6 tones.Initials
- Initials may also be heard as prenasal in free variation. When the two initials are followed by non-nasalized rimes, they can be heard as voiced plosives.
- Palato-alveolar sounds can also be heard as alveolo-palatal sounds in free variation among speakers.