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Yunfu Cantonese or Yunfu vernacular[2] (simplified Chinese: 云浮白话; traditional Chinese: 雲浮白話) is a dialect of Yue Chinese spoken in Yunfu, Guangdong, China. It is classified as a variety of Yuehai Yue,[1] or in more recent classification, Guangfu Yue.[3]

Yunfu Cantonese
云浮白话 / 雲浮白話
Native to	China
Region	Yunfu, Guangdong
Native speakers	(400,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Yue Yuehai Yunfu Cantonese
Writing system	Han characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Phonology

This section is mostly based on the variety spoken in Yuncheng.

Initials

The inventory of initials consists of 20 consonants (including the null initial):[4]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
					plain	labialized
Stop	plain	p 爸	t 打		k 家	kʷ[upper-alpha 1] 怪	(ʔ)[upper-alpha 2] 矮
	aspirated	pʰ 怕	tʰ 他		kʰ 茄	kʷʰ[upper-alpha 1] 葵
Affricate	plain		t͡s 坐
	aspirated		t͡sʰ 初
Fricative		f 花	s 社				h 下
Nasal		m 妈 / 媽	n[upper-alpha 3] 拿		ŋ 我
Approximant			l[upper-alpha 3] 罗 / 羅	j[upper-alpha 1] 野		w[upper-alpha 1] 蛙

Tones

Traditional accounts consider there to be eight tone categories:[6][7]

Syllable type	Open syllables					Checked syllables
Traditional tone name	dark flat 阴平 / 陰平	light flat 阳平 / 陽平	dark rising 阴上 / 陰上	light rising 阳上 / 陽上	departing 去声 / 去聲	dark entering 阴入 / 陰入[upper-alpha 1]	mid entering 中入[upper-alpha 2]	light entering 陽入 / 陽入
Description	high level	low falling	mid rising	low rising	mid level	high level	mid level	low level
Example	诗 / 詩	时 / 時	史	市	试 / 試	识 / 識	泄	食
Tone letter (Chao tone numerals)	˥ (55), ˥˧ (53)[upper-alpha 3]	˨˩ (21)	˧˥ (35)	˨˧ (23)[upper-alpha 4]	˧ (33)	˥ (55)	˧ (33)	˨ (22)

Notes

References

• Song, Changdong; Yu, Weiwen; Zhuang, Yiqun (1995). 云浮方言志 (in Chinese). Guangzhou: Guangdong Higher Education Press. ISBN 7-5361-1669-1.
• Wu, Wei (2012). B1—18 粤语. 中国语言地图集 [Language Atlas of China] (in Chinese). Vol. 汉语方言卷 (2nd ed.). Beijing: Commercial Press. pp. 125–133. ISBN 978-7-100-07054-6.
• Yan, Li-ming (2013). 云浮白话的疑问语气助词 [The Interrogative Particles in Yunfu Vernacular]. Journal of Guangdong University of Education (in Chinese). 33 (6): 78–86.
• Zhan, Bohui; Cheung, Yat-shing, eds. (1998). 粤西十縣市粤方言調查報告 [A Survey of Yue Dialects in West Guangdong] (in Chinese). Guangzhou: Jinan University Press. ISBN 7-81029-725-2.

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