Also known as
  • Hunanese,
  • Xiang,
  • Hunan,
  • Hsiang
Xiāng (traditional Chinese: 湘語; simplified Chinese: 湘语), also known as Hunan, Hunanese (Chinese: 湖南话), or Hsiang is a Chinese language spoken mainly in the Hunan province, but also in a few other provinces such as Sichuan and Guangxi. It is a group of languages of immense interest to Chinese dialectologists and historical phonologists because some of its languages still exhibit the three-way distinction of Middle Chinese obstruents, preserving the voiced stops, fricatives and affricates as in... full article at wikipedia
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