Wiktionary:About Chinese/Southern Pinghua

Southern Pinghua (Chinese: ) is a language subfamily of the branch of Chinese. Currently under Wiktionary, the Yue branch does not exist, so Southern Pinghua is classified as a direct descendent family of Middle Chinese.

Nanning Pinghua
Currently, Nanning Pinghua, the representative lect, is included in Wiktionary, with Tingzi (亭子) being the representative locality. For the romanization, Jyutping++ is adopted as below.

Initials
Under the current analysis, Nanning Pinghua has 22 initials, including the zero-initial.

Finals
Under the current analysis, Nanning Pinghua has 49 finals, including a syllabic.

Tones
Nanning Pinghua has 10 tones, which are represented by 6 symbols.

Allophonic relations

 * As with Jyutping for Cantonese, we use an analysis where glides are all transferred to (part of) the initial. For example:
 * We analyse with initial ⟨w⟩ and final ⟨aai⟩.
 * We analyse with initial ⟨kw⟩ and final ⟨aai⟩.
 * As with Jyutping for Cantonese, we disallow syllables starting with a low vowel. For example:
 * ⟨ji⟩ is preferred over *⟨i⟩ for.
 * ⟨wu⟩ is preferred over *⟨u⟩ for.
 * ⟨jyu⟩ is preferred over *⟨yu⟩ for.
 * However, for our analysis, does not count as starting with a low vowel, because it is an allophone of  before  and, so ⟨iak⟩  and ⟨jak⟩  are both valid syllables.

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.