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TheChangsha dialect (simplified Chinese:长沙话;traditional Chinese:長沙話;pinyin:Chángshāhuà;IPA:[tsã˩˧sɔ˧ɣo˨˩]) is a dialect ofNew XiangChinese. It is spoken predominantly inChangsha, the capital ofHunan province,China. It is not mutually intelligible withStandard Mandarin, the official language of China.

The Changsha dialect is what Chinesedialectologists would call a New Xiang variety, as opposed to Old Xiang; the distinction is mainly based on the presence of theMiddle Chinesevoicedplosives andaffricates. The Old Xiang varieties, being more conservative, have in general kept them while the New Xiang ones have altogether lost them and changed them tovoicelessunaspiratedconsonants. Although most Chinese dialectologists treat New Xiang as part of thegroup,Zhou Zhenhe and You Rujie classify it asSouthwestern Mandarin.^[1]

The Changsha dialect is spoken in the city ofChangsha and its neighbouring suburbs. However, there are some slight differences between the urban and suburban speech. For instance, theretroflex set is only heard in the suburbs, but not in the city. Further, some words have a different final in the two varieties.

There are no substantial differences between dialects in the neighbourhoods of Changsha; however, age dialects do exist. For example, the distinction betweenalveolar andalveolo-palatal consonants is only made by the elderly while the younger generations do not normally distinguish them. The finals[-oŋ] and[-ioŋ] have become[-ən] and[-in] in the younger speech. Also, the initial consonant[ɲ] in the elderly's and middled-aged's speech is either dropped altogether or changed to[l].

The Changsha dialect, together with other New Xiang varieties, has lost theMiddle Chineseobstruents, which are changed tovoicelessunaspiratedconsonants. It has also lost all the finalplosives found in therùtone inMiddle Chinese.

Changsha has 6 tones, which are neutralized in syllables ending in a stop.

• List of Chinese dialects

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• Cantonese and other dialects (in Chinese)
• Classification of Xiang Dialects from Glossika

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