Soeinam Language

Soeinam language (or Soeinam Chinese, Soeinam, Mandarin: 綏南話, Soeinam: 綏南語, IPA: [sœi˥ nam˨˩ ŋiɔ˨]) is a tonal language derived from Middle Chinese.

Classification and Dialects


Initials
After going some changes, such as retroflex stops merge with retroflex sibiliants and some other changes:
 * /ɳ/ merged with /ɲ/. (娘母歸日)
 * Voiced labials become implosive.
 * Most voiced stops and affricatives become whether tenius (for level and entering) or nasal (rising or departing). (全濁清化)
 * Voiced dental sibilants all become voiced fricatives. (從母歸邪)
 * Voiced velars all become nasals. (群母歸疑)
 * New sound /p̪͡f/ (沛母) has been isolated from /pʰ/ when it's high rising tone (陰去) and entering tone (入聲).

Finals
A final of Project 9 contains medial, coda, and onset. Some finals of words in Middle Chinese has change (most of them lose their medials) and here's some rule:

Some comparisons
我寫我口維

nga6 sia2 nga6 khau2 ue2 (I write what I say.)(我寫我說的)

少女手掬澈玉，自徑往重林行去

sjau3 njo6 sju2 kut4 chet4 ngok8 tsi7 king3 ong6 tsrong5 lim5 gang5 kiu3 (The girl holdsa clear pearl, going to the heavy woods alone.)(少女手捧著清澈的寶珠，獨自往森林裡走去)