Wiktionary:About Chinese/Cantonese/Yulin

Yulin Yue (Chinese: or 鬱林話)  is a language of the  branch of Chinese, currently called Category:Cantonese language on Wiktionary.

Its representative locality is.

Romanization
For the romanization, Jyutping++ is adopted as below. (The official Jyutping++ does not include Yulin of Yuzhou District.)

Initials
Under the current analysis, Yangjiang Yue has 22 initials, including the zero-initial. Note that in, they had two extra initials and  which have been merged into  and  respectively in the current dialect. They did not form any minimal pair, as (resp. ) came from Middle Chinese *p- (resp. *t-) and so was paired with light tones, and  (resp. ) came from Middle Chinese *b- (resp. *d-) and so was paired with dark tones.

Finals
Under the current analysis, Yulin Yue has 48 finals, including two syllabic finals and. This mostly follows, so there are some minor differences with , documented below.

Differences between Sources
The finals in the two sources mostly correspond with each other. (Note that is a rare final.)

Tones
Yulin Yue has 10 tones, which are represented by 6 symbols.

Note that the final comes from historic *-Vng (unchecked) and *-Vk (checked); in case of the latter, they are still assigned to Unchecked Tones 2 and 6. For example, and  are both ;  and  are both.

Sandhi
In a compound with two characters, the tone of the first character undergoes sandhi according to the tone of the second character.

For example, becomes phonetically *.

The other source has another similar but different sandhi system, which we do not follow:

Input format
In the pronunciation section of each entry, under the template, use the   parameter to indicate the pronunciation of the entry in Jyutping++ as described above. Use commas  without spaces to separate alternate readings.

Use to indicate tone sandhi, and use  to indicate diminutive.