New Xiang

New Xiang
New Hunanese, Chang-Yi
Spoken in	People's Republic of China
Region	Hunan
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Xiang New Xiang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	hsn-cha
New Xiang is in orange. It is in contact with Southwestern Mandarin to the northwest (green), Gan to the east (purple), and Old Xiang to the south (yellow).

New Xiang, also known as Chang-Yi (长益片 / 長益片) is the dominant form of Xiang Chinese, or Hunnanese. It is spoken in the areas of Hunan where Hunanese contancts neighboring Chinese languages, Mandarin and Gan. Under their influence, it has lost some of the conservative phonological characteristics which makes Old Xiang notable.

Dialects

There are numerous dialects of New Xiang. Changsha is representative.

• Changsha
• Yueyang dialect
• Hengyang dialect
• Hengnan dialect
• Hengshan dialect
• Hengdong dialect
• Leiyang dialect
• Changning dialect
• Yiyang dialect
• Ningxiang dialect
• Zhuzhou dialect
• Changde dialect
• Pingjiang dialect

These are spoken in:

• Chángshā city (長沙市), Chángshā (長沙), Xiāngtán city (湘潭市), Xiāngtán (湘潭), Zhūzhōu city (株州市), Zhūzhōu (株州), Píngjiāng (平江), Liúyáng (瀏陽), Níngxiāng (寧鄉), Wàngchéng (望城), Xiāngyīn (湘陰), Yìyáng city (益陽市), Yìyáng (益陽), Táojiāng (桃江), Yuánjiāng (沅江), Mìluó (汨羅), Yuèyáng city (岳陽市), Yuèyáng (岳陽), Nánxiàn (南縣), Ānxiāng (安鄉), Ānhuà (安化), Héngyáng (衡陽市), Héngyángyáng (衡陽陽), Héngnán (衡南), Héngdōng (衡東), Héngshān (衡山), Shàodōng (邵東), Xīnshào (新邵), Qiányáng (黔陽), Hóngjiāng city (洪江市), Huìtóng (會同), Suíníng (綏寧)