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Reflexes of Archaic Chinese *g and *ɣ in the Min Dialects (in Chinese)
古音声母*g和 *ɣ 闽语中的演变
Pang-Hsin Ting 丁邦新
Abstract 摘要
According to the new material discovered in Shibo (石陂), a Northern Min dialect, this paper suggests that there were g and Ä initials in Archaic Chinese. The characters that belong to the xia initial (匣) in Archaic Chinese may be divided into two groups. One group, which originally combined with characters of the qun initial (羣), originated from Archaic Chinese g- and is preserved as g- in Shibei; the other group, which originally combined with characters of the yu initial (喻三), originated from Archaic Chinese Ä- and is preserved as ú- Shibei. Jerry Norman reconstructed five distinctive initials in his proto-Min system, namely, g, gh, -g, h, and Ä, which could be reduced to two, namely, g and Ä.