Tiantai dialect

Tiantai dialect
Tiantai dialect
Traditional Chinese	天台話
Simplified Chinese	天台话
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tiāntāi Huà
IPA	[tʰjɛ́n.tʰáɪ.xwâ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Tin1 Toi4 waa2
IPA	[tʰin˥.tʰɔj˩.wa˧˥]

Tiantai Dialect
Tiantai Dialect
天台話 / 天台话
Pronunciation	Tiantai Dialect: [tʰi.tʰai.u]
Native to	China
Region	Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Wu Taizhou Wu Taizhou Tiantai Dialect; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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., /t tʰ d/), preserving an earlier feature of Chinese which Mandarin has collapsed into a two-way distinction.

The Tiantai dialect is the main representative of the northern Taizhou dialect family.