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Hi, everyone,
my name is Ying Li.
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I'm very happy to share my dialect
here at Wikitongues.
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I come from Tanghe County,
Nanyang City, Henan Province.
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Tanghe is on the boarder of
Hubei Province.
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I'm going to show you Henan dialect today.
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Henan dialect is known as Central Plains
Mandarin, one of the central dialects.
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It sounds simliar to Mandarin,
but it's actually very different.
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Although we call it the Henan dialect,
it has many variations.
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Different cities have different accents.
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For example, Nanyang City has a different
accent than Zhengzhou and Luoyang accents.
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Even counties in Nanyang share different
accents, like Tanghe and Tongbai.
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They have different accents.
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So the accent I'm about to present for you
can only represent Tanghe.
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Many Chinese people know this typical word
in Henan dialect is "Zhong"...
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"Zhong" means "Okay",
"Bu zhong" means "not okay".
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There are also some other typical ones,
for example...
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"Such a hot day!
So 'dai jin' to sit in the AC room"
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"dai jin" means "comfy (shufu)".
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Another one, "What are you doing?
(ni zai zuo shen me?)"...
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My dialect would be "Ni gai zhi sha li?"
or "ni gai zhua li?".
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Another typical one,
"Have you eaten? (Ni chi fan mei you?)"
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It would be "Ni chi fan mu nou?"
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If yes, you can say, "Chi le",
if not, you can say "mu nou".
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Another one, "Do you have money?
(Ni you qian mei you?)"
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In my dialect, it would be
"Ni you qian mu nai?"
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If yes, you say "you",
if no, you say "mu nai".
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Besides those, different times
of day are also different.
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For example, "zao qi" means
"early in the morning (zao shang)".
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"qian banr" for "morning (shang wu)"...
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"shang wu" for "noon (zhong wu)"...
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"hou banr" for "afternoon (xia wu)"...
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"dai he sir" for "dusk (bang wan)"...
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and "he liao" for "night (wan shang)"...
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They are completely different
from Mandarin.
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We also call some animals different names.
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For example, in my dialect...
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"chang chong" is for "snake (she)"...
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"chu chuan" for "earth worms (qiu yin)"...
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"ou" for "cow (niu)"...
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"huo zi" for "rabbit (tu zi)"...
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"lao bie" for "turtle (wu gui)".
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Those are the typical ones.
There are still more...
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"dunr" for "little stool (deng zi)"...
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"ge ziu" for "squat (dun)"...
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"ziao mao" for "hilarious (gao xiao)"...
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Not only do we have
interesting names...
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we also have interesting phrases.
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I still remember my math teacher
from elementary school.
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I will never forget
her "tough love" for us.
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She said things like, "You're like
Zhu Bajie who carries the torn quilt...
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you're nothing and you have nothing"...
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or "You're like the turtle in a pot,
the longer you stay, the worse you get".
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Very tough but very funny.
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Um...
Those are all...
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Anyways, I think I should stop here.
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If possible, I hope that...
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people from other parts of Henan
will share more about Henan dialect here.
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That's all for today!
Bye!
