Leshan dialect

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.

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

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