Zoanciw-oe

Zoanciw-oe 🔊 (Zoanciw-oe; 泉州話; Quanzhou dialect)

Notes

• Zoanciw was the source of the northern accents of Taiguo.
• The Taipag, Logkarng, and Sinteg accents are inclined to the Zoanciw accent.
  • In the early 20th century, Zoanciw-speaking Hoklo people were dominant in the north of the island and along the west coast.
• A number of pronunciation and lexical differences exist between the Taiwanese variants. **A major feature of Zoanciw-oe is its tone sandhi: curving-up tone changes to low-falling tone instead of basic tone.
  • Thus Zoanciw-oe speakers would render Zoanciw as Zoaxnciw 🔊.