The Tiantai dialect, also known as Tiantaihua (simplified Chinese: 天台话; traditional Chinese: 天台話; pinyin: Tiāntāihuà; Tiantai dialect pronunciation: [tʰi.tʰai.u]) is a regiolect of Wu Chinese in the Taizhou Wu dialect group. It is spoken in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China.
Like other dialects in the Wu family, Tiantaihua has a three-way contrast between voiced, unaspirated voiceless, and aspirated initial consonants (e.g., /ttʰd/), preserving an earlier feature of Chinese which Mandarin has collapsed into a two-way distinction.
Tiantai dialect
Traditional Chinese
天台話
Simplified Chinese
天台话
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Tiāntāi Huà
IPA
[tʰjɛ́n.tʰáɪ.xwâ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Tin1 Toi4 waa2
IPA
[tʰiːn˥.tʰɔːi˩.waː˧˥]
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