Old Xiang
Lou-Shao
Native to	People's Republic of China
Region	Hunan
Speakers	12.96 million (2012)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Xiang Old Xiang
Writing system	Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
ISO 639-6	louo
Glottolog	luos1238
Linguasphere	79-AAA-eab
Old Xiang is in blue. It is in contact withNew Xiang (red),Ji-Xu Xiang (pink),Southwestern Mandarin,Gan, andYong-Quan Xiang (dark green, south).

Old Xiang, also known asLou-Shao (simplified Chinese:娄邵片;traditional Chinese:婁邵片;pinyin:Lóu Shào piàn;lit. 'Loudi andShaoshan subgroup'), is aconservativeXiang Chinese language. It is spoken in the central areas ofHunan where it has been to some extent isolated from the neighboring Chinese languages,Southwestern Mandarin andGan languages, and it retains thevoiced plosives ofMiddle Chinese, which are otherwise only preserved inWu languages likeShanghainese. SeeShuangfeng dialect for details.Mao Zedong was a speaker of Old Xiang with his nativeShaoshan dialect.^{[citation needed]}

TheShuangfeng dialect is representative.

Laba Miao (喇叭苗话) is an Old Xiang dialect spoken by the Laba Miao people of western Guizhou. In Guizhou, it is spoken inQinglong County 晴隆县 (including in Changliu Township 长流乡),Pu'an County 普安县,Liuzhi County 六枝县,Shuicheng County, 水城县, andPanzhou 盘州.^[2]

Matanghua (麻塘话) is a variety of Old Xiang that is spoken in Matang Ethnic Miao Township (麻塘苗族乡),Suining County, Hunan.^[3][4]

• Li, Rong (2012),中國語言地圖集 [Language Atlas of China] (in Chinese) (2 ed.), The Commercial Press,ISBN 978-7-100-07054-6.

• Zeng, Ting (2020)."The Xiangxiang dialect of Chinese". Illustrations of the IPA.Journal of the International Phonetic Association.50 (2):258–281.doi:10.1017/S002510031800035X, with supplementary sound recordings.

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