A Historical View: The Different Pronunciations in Yue Dialects Correspond to the jing Initials of Ancient Chinese
中古精組字在粵語諸次方言的不同讀法及其历史涵義
Yun Mai 麦耘

Abstract 摘要
There are two kinds of initials in Yue dialects (the subdialects of Cantonese), the ts, tsh, s series and t, th, / series correspond to Jing group initials in Middle Chinese. Thus we could reconstruct two kinds of initials for the subdialects of Early Cantonese: one is *t, *th, *d/*, *; the other is *ts, *tsh, *dz/*z, *s. The latter remain its articulatory position in modern Yue dialects, whereas the former changed into ts series or t series for the affricates, and / for the fricatives in most cases. It is common known that there were not interdental initials such as , in Ancient Chinese. The interdental initials in Early Cantonese might be considerable influenced from the native minority languages in the South of China, e.g. Proto Kam-Tai, etc.

在现代粤语诸次方言中，对应于中古汉语的精组声母的读音有两类，有的次方言读 ts 类，有的次方言则读 t 类，其中心纽读为 s 或 /。通过比较，可以构拟出精组声母在早期粤语中的两类读法：1. *t, *th, *d/*, *; 2. *ts, *tsh, *dz/*z, *s。在后来的发展中，第2类的发音部位基本上保持不变，而第1类中的塞擦音在不同的次方言中分化为 ts 类或 t 类，擦音在大部分情况下读为/。作为并无齿间音的古代中原汉语的一个分支，早期粤语的音系中存在齿间音声母这一现象，体现了它在形成期受到古代岭南土著民族的语言（古壮侗语等）的重大影响。

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