Da-Tong dialect

Da-Tong
Daye
Native to	China
Region	Southeastern Hubei, eastern Hunan
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Gan–Hakka Gan Chinese Da-Tong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	dton
Glottolog	None

Da-Tong, sometimes called Daye dialect (simplified Chinese: 大冶话; traditional Chinese: 大冶話) after its principal variety, is a dialect of Gan Chinese. 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	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
Affricate	voiceless unaspirated		ts	tɕ
	voiceless aspirated		tsʰ	tɕʰ
Fricative	voiced		z
	voiceless	f	s	ɕ		x
Lateral approximant			l

Tones

Citation tones

Tone chart of Daye Gan

Tone number	Tone name	Tone contour
1	yin ping (陰平)	˨ (2)
2	yang ping (陽平)	˧˩˧ (313)
3	shang sheng (上聲)	˦˧ (43)
4	yang qu (去聲)	˧˥ (35)
5	ru sheng (入聲)	˩˧ (13)