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Old Xiang Old Hunanese, Lou-Shao Spoken in People's Republic of China Region Hunan Language family Sino-Tibetan- Chinese
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- Old Xiang
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Language codes ISO 639-3 – Linguist List hsn-luo Old Xiang is in yellow. It is in contact with New Xiang (orange), Ji-Xu Xiang (red), Southwestern Mandarin (blue and green, north), Gan (purple), and Hunan Tuhua (dark green, south).Old Xiang, also known as Lou-Shao (娄邵片 / 婁邵片) is a conservative form of Xiang Chinese, or Hunnanese. It is spoken in the central areas of Hunan where it has been to some extent isolated from neighboring Chinese languages, Mandarin and Gan, and it retains the voiced stops of Middle Chinese, which are otherwise only preserved in Wu dialects like Shanghainese. See Shuangfeng dialect for details.
Dialects
Shuangfeng dialect is representative.
- Shuangfeng
- Loudi dialect
- Shaoyang dialect
- Qidong dialect
- Qiyang dialect
These are spoken in:
- Hunan province(湖南省): Lóudǐ city (婁底市), Xiāngxiāng (湘鄉), Shuāngfēng (雙峰), Liányuán (漣源), Lěngshuǐjiāng city (冷水江市), Xīnhuà (新化), Ānhuà (安化), Shàoyáng city (邵陽市), Shàoyáng (邵陽), Dòngkǒu (洞口), Lōnghuí (隆回), Wǔgāng (武岡), Qídōng (祁東), Qíyáng (祁陽), Chéngbù (城步), Xīnníng (新寧) and Máyáng (麻陽).
- Guangxi province (廣西省): Quánzhōu (全州), Guànyáng (灌陽), Zīyuán (資源) and Xīng'ān (興安)
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