Misplaced Pages

#501498

13-773: Houlong Township is an urban township in western Miaoli County , Taiwan . It is bordered by the Taiwan Strait on the west and Zaoqiao Township on the east. It lies at the mouth of the Houlong River . Miaoli HSR station is located in Houlong. The township's name originates from that of a Taiwanese Plains Aborigines settlement. During the Kingdom of Tungning , the area was called Aulangsia ( Chinese : 後壠社 ). Other variants of Aulang existed (e.g., Chinese : 凹浪/後壟 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Āu-lâng ). In 1920, during Japanese rule ,

26-520: Is accessible from Dashan Station , Houlong Station , Longgang Station and Fengfu Station of the Taiwan Railways . Taiwan High Speed Rail has one station in the township, which is Miaoli Station . Township (Taiwan) Townships are the third-level administrative subdivisions of counties of the Republic of China (Taiwan) , along with county-administered cities . After World War II,

39-498: Is shared with most modern Eastern Min varieties. Like the Fuzhou dialect , the tonal sandhi rules of more than two syllables display further complexities. The two-syllable initial assimilation rules are shown in the table below: In the Matsu dialect, if the rime type of the former syllable is changed while tone sandhi occurred, the rime of the former syllable should be changed to adapt

52-408: Is summarized in the table: Close rime tone " ă̤ " should be pronounced as /ɛ˥/ instead of /a˥/ ; and open rime tone " â̤ " should be pronounced as /a˩˧˩/ instead of /ɛ˩˧˩/ . The Matsu dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give

65-530: Is the local dialect of Matsu Islands , Taiwan . Native speakers also call it Bàng-huâ ( 平話 ), meaning the language spoken in everyday life. It is recognised as one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in Lienchiang County , Taiwan. The dialect is a sub dialect of the Fuzhou dialect of Eastern Min . The Matsu dialect is quite similar to the Changle dialect , another subdialect of

78-764: The Fuzhou dialect. Previously the Eastern Min varieties in the Matsu Islands were seen as a part of general Fujian varieties. The establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 severed the Matsu Islands from the rest of Fujian province, and as communications were cut off between the Republic of China (now including Taiwan and without Mainland China) and the PRC, the identity of the Matsu Islands specifically became established. Additionally,

91-465: The first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable): In the table above, "dark entering A" means dark entering coda ended with /-k̚/ , "dark entering B" means ended with /-ʔ/ . In the modern spoken language, the final plosive is difficult to distinguish in isolation, having merged into /-ʔ/ , but the two categories exhibit different behaviors from each other in tone sandhi environments. This feature

104-509: The only two counties that do not have urban townships. Township names are now transliterated using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system without tone marks. The county names do not necessarily use Hanyu Pinyin or special case such as Lukang . Colors indicate the common language status of Formosan languages , Hakka or Matsu dialect within each division. Matsu dialect The Matsu dialect ( Eastern Min : Mā-cū-uâ / 馬祖話 )

117-619: The place was renamed Kōryū Village ( Japanese : 後龍庄 ) , under Chikunan District ( 竹南郡 ) , Shinchiku Prefecture . This name closely matched the Japanese pronunciation of the previous names but with different kanji ( Chinese characters ). This written form was retained after the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945; the characters are pronounced Hòulóng in Mandarin Chinese . The Taiwanese Hokkien pronunciation remains Āu-lâng , based on

130-425: The pre-1920 name. It lies at the mouth of the Houlong River . The township comprises 23 villages: Beilong, Dashan, Dazhuang, Dongming, Fengfu, Funing, Fuxing, Haibao, Haipu, Jiaoyi, Longjin, Longkeng, Nangang, Nanlong, Puding, Shuiwei, Waipu, Wanbao, Xinmin, Xiushui, Xizhou, Zhonghe and Zhonglong. The township is part of Miaoli County Constituency I electoral district for Legislative Yuan . Houlong Township

143-406: The tones ( see below ). In the Matsu dialect, level tone ( 平聲 ), rising tone ( 上聲 ) and light entering ( 陽入 ) should be read in close rimes ( 緊韻 ); departing tone and dark entering should be read in open rimes ( 鬆韻 ). For example, " a̤ " have two pronunciations, / ɛ / in close rime and / a / in open rime; " a̤h " have two pronunciations, / eʔ / in close rime and / ɛʔ / in open rime. This

SECTION 10

#1732856001502

156-935: The townships were established from the following conversions on the Japanese administrative divisions : Although local laws do not enforce strict standards for classifying them, generally urban townships have a larger population and more business and industry than rural townships, but not to the extent of county-administered cities. Under townships, there is still the village as the fourth or basic level of administration. As of 2022, there are totally 184 townships, including 38 urban townships, 122 rural townships and 24 mountain indigenous townships. 174 townships with 35 urban and 118 rural townships are located in Taiwan Province and 10 townships with 3 urban and 4 rural townships are located in Fujian Province . Penghu and Lienchiang are

169-435: The varieties of Eastern Min on the Matsu Islands became seen as a Matsu dialect. The Matsu dialect has 17 initials, 46 rimes and 7 tones. / β / and / ʒ / exist only in connected speech. There are 46 rimes in the Matsu dialect. Many rimes come in pairs: in the table above, the one to the left represents a close rime ( 緊韻 ), while the second represents an open rime ( 鬆韻 ). The close/open rimes are closely related with

#501498