Interesting words in Guangji dialect

1. Guangji dialect is the local dialect of Wuxue City, Hubei Province. Because Wuxue City was formerly known as Guangji County, it is called Guangji Dialect. Guangji dialect is mainly spoken in Wuxue City, Hubei Province (excluding Huangmei dialect, which is mainly spoken in the eastern part such as Lianhuatang and Taibai Lake), Maan Town, Ruichang City, Jiangxi Province, and parts of Chengzi Town, Jiujiang County. The current speaking population is about Around 1 million.

2. Generally speaking, Guangji dialect belongs to the southern dialect. Guangji dialect is one of the seven major series of 16 dialects in the country. It combines the ancient Wu and Chu dialects and northern Mandarin. It took more than 2,000 years to form the modern Guangji dialect.

3. Guangji dialect has special pronunciation and word selection. It retains some ancient Chu terms. It is also similar to the Southwest Mandarin in the southwestern provinces and is connected with the Fujian and Cantonese dialects. For example, the pronunciation of "qian" and "gan" is the same as in Fujian, and the pronunciation of "ju", "ji" and "zui" is the same as "zii" in Cantonese (also pronounced "ji" in Huaqiao and Longping areas). Guangji has been an immigrant area since ancient times. There are three personal pronouns in Guangji dialect. The first person is called me in Guangji dialect, which belongs to the northern dialect. When we call ourselves myself, it belongs to Gan dialect; the second person is called you, which is en in Guangji dialect. , belongs to the Wu dialect; the third person is even more bizarre, it is qu (pronounced hei, kei), which is a typical medieval dialect, and now only exists in the Hakka dialects of Fujian and Guangdong. Just like the word "channel" in Zhu Xi's poem "Ask the canal how to get clear water, so that there is a source of living water" is an example.

4. Example:

Mother - Ti (sound ii) "Shuowen Jiezi" Volume 12 female part Ti, truth. One is called Yan Shiye. One day, between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River, I called my mother Ti. The female voice is the voice.

Chengzhiqie

Father - Father, Ye (sound ya)

Husband - boss

Wife - mother and son

Girl - sister (zia er or jia er)

Boy - 伶er (dier)

Grandma ---- mother-in-law

Grandpa ——My father-in-law

Morning - morning

Afternoon - afternoon

Evening - night (ha ya)

Have dinner----overnight (ya)