Hsiang

English Etymology From en cmn 湘 Xiāng en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsiang¹.Xiang language, Wade-Giles romanization Hsiang language, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun en Xiang. en 1962 February Ch’u Chai; Winberg Chai The Chinese Language The Changing Society of China https://archive.org/details/changingsocietyo00chuw/ w:Mentor Books 62-9702 152582047 170 https://archive.org/details/changingsocietyo00chuw/page/170/ The Hsiang dialect is spoken principally in Hunan and resembles to some extent the southwestern Mandarin; in this group the number of tones varíes from six to seven. en 1973 R. A. D. Forrest The Modern Dialects The Chinese Language https://archive.org/details/chineselanguage0000forr/ 3rd London w:Faber and Faber 0571048153 974618 221 https://archive.org/details/chineselanguage0000forr/page/221/ If we adopt the threefold division of Northern Chinese, the form commonly known as ‘Southern Mandarin’ occupies the southern part of Kiangsu, Anhwei south of the river Hwei and north by the Wu boundary, the south-east corner of Hupeh, and all Kiangsi not occupied by Wu or Hakka dialects. The western form covers the southern part of Hupeh, the whole of Hunan except the so-called Hsiang dialect area, and Szechʻwan south of Chengtu, with extensions into the provinces of Kweichow and Yünnan. en 1978 Asia Barbara F. Grimes w:Ethnologue https://archive.org/details/ethnologue0000grim_r0x4/ 9th Huntington Beach, CA w:Wycliffe Bible Translators 4672259 241 https://archive.org/details/ethnologue0000grim_r0x4/page/241/ Hweichou in southern Anhwei may be a Hsiang dialect or a Wu dialect. Hsiang has no written form apart from standard Chinese. References Further reading pn Anagrams en aghins Nishga Hagins sanghi Ghanis hangis ghanis ashing en Languages