Ciangciw-oe

Ciangciw-oe 🔊 (Zhangzhou dialect) si Ciangciw laang ee bwguo, maxsi Banlamguo Høxlør-oe extea ee cidky gwgieen.

Notes

Ciangciw was the source of the southern accents of Taiguo.
The Gilaan and Taitiofng accents are inclined to the Ciangciw accent.
- In the early 20th century, Ciangciw-speaking Hoklo people were dominant in the south and perhaps the central plains as well.
A number of pronunciation and lexical differences exist between the Taiwanese variants.
- A major distinction of Ciangciw-oe is its tone sandhi, which changes the curving-up tone to basic tone, as opposed to low-falling tone as in Zoanciw-oe.
- Thus, Ciangciw-oe speakers would render Taai 🔊 + oaan 🔊 as Taioaan 🔊, versus Taixoaan 🔊 in Zoanciw-oe.
Ciangciw-oe is the source of the western terms Amoy ([e˨˩mui˧˥]) and Quemoy ([kim˧˧mui˧˥]).
Another distinguishing feature of the coastal speech (esp. Gilaan) is the use of the vowel "vui" in place of "ng": png, pvui 🔊
Modern Literal Taiwanese spelling follows the Ciangciw tone sandhi