Da-Tong, sometimes called Daye (simplified Chinese: 大冶话; traditional Chinese: 大冶話) after its principal dialect, is one of the Gan Chinese languages. It is spoken in Daye, in the southeastern part of Hubei province near the Jiangxi border, as well as in Xianning, Jiangyu, Puxin, Chongyang, Tongcheng, Tongshan, and Yangxin in Hubei, as well as in Huarong and bordering areas of eastern Hunan.
Sounds
The Daye variety will be taken as representative.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Nasal | m | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless unaspirated | p | t | k | ||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless unaspirated | ts | tɕ | |||
| voiceless aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | ||||
| Fricative | voiced | z | ʑ | |||
| voiceless | f | s | ɕ | x | ||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||
Tones
Citation tones
| Tone number | Tone name | Tone contour |
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| 1 | yin ping (陰平) | ˨ (2) |
| 2 | yang ping (陽平) | ˧˩˧ (313) |
| 3 | shang sheng (上聲) | ˦˧ (43) |
| 4 | qu sheng (去聲) | ˧˥ (35) |
| 5 | ru sheng (入聲) | ˩˧ (13) |
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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