Putian dialect
Putian dialect is a dialect of Pu-Xian Min Chinese spoken in urban area of Putian, which is a prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian province.Phonology
Putian dialect has 15 initials, 40 rimes and 7 tones.Initials
Rimes
Tones
Assimilation
Putian dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.
The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below :
