A Case Study on the Tonal Patterns of the Manchu People's Beijing Dialect
During the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican period,there were subtle differences in the tones between the Manchu people in Beijing and the Han Chinese people speaking the Beijing dialect.Mr.Lao She's tone recordings from the 1920s reflect the accent and intonation of the Manchu people in Beijing at that time,where the Yangping tone was higher than the Yinping tone,and the final tone value reached the upper limit of the pitch range.This characteristic gradually disappeared,and the tones of the present-day Manchu people in Beijing have merged with the main characteristics of the Beijing dialect.