Leshan dialect

Leshan
乐lè山shān话huà
Native to	China
Region	Shizhong District, Leshan Wutongqiao District Shawan District Qianwei County Muchuan County
Native speakers	(undated figure of 770,000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Ba–Shu (Disputed) Mandarin (Disputed) Southwestern? Sichuanese? Minjiang Leshan
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese Ba–Shu Chinese (Disputed) Middle Chinese (Disputed) Old Mandarin (Disputed)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	mjic
Glottolog	None

The Leshan dialect (simplified Chinese: 乐lè山shān话huà; traditional Chinese: 樂lè山shān話huà; pinyin: Lèshānhuà; Sichuanese Standard Chinese: No²san¹hua⁴; locally [nʊʔ˧sã˥xuɑ˨]) is the Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan and is a variety of Minjiang. It preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.

Phonology

There are a total of 20 initials in the Leshan dialect.

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Coronal	Alveolar	Alveolo-palatal	Velar
Plosive	plain	/p/ 贝beì			/t/ 得dé		/k/ 古gŭ
	aspirated	/pʰ/ 配peì			/tʰ/ 套taò		/kʰ/ 可kě
Affricate	plain			/ts/ 早zaŏ		/tɕ/ 价jià
	aspirated			/tsʰ/ 草caŏ		/tɕʰ/ 巧qiaŏ
Nasal		/m/ 没meí		/n/ 路lù			/ŋ/ 我wŏ
Fricative	voiceless		/f/ 发fā	/s/ 速sù		/ɕ/ 小xiaŏ	/x/ 好haŏ
	voiced		/v/ 五wŭ	/z/ 认rèn
Zero		∅ 衣yī