Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. From the Northwest China Sprachbund: Xúnhuà Chinese dialect data

Abstract

This paper presents fresh data from a variety of Northwestern Chinese spoken in Xúnhuà county 循化縣 Qīnghăi province. Xúnhuà Chinese is typical of Northwestern Chinese with its massive interference from substrate languages (Amdo Tibetan, Turkic, and Mongolic), as well as superstrate interference from Standard Mandarin. Salient phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical features of these data are introduced to support this claim. The original purpose of this small corpus, collected from a Huí (sinophone Muslim) Chinese man, was to compare Xúnhuà Huí-Chinese features with those of neighboring languages and with those of other Northwest Chinese dialects. 本文採用青海省東南角的循化撒拉族自治縣漢語方言材料舉列說明中國西北部作為種語言區域關係體. 循化話是甘肅河州話的變體. 本文根據有關的語言和歷史材料, 從語言接觸的角度看循化話的特征,認為這種區域特征是漢語,安多藏語, 突厥語和蒙古語混合的結果. 該區域特征的擴散不限於詞彙, 而包括語音特征以及語法結構.