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Hi, I am a native of Rugao如皋, Jiangsu 江苏, China. (Ah, my name! Yes, it is Huang Can. But as it is homographic with the English word “can” and as I don’t want to be called [kan], I figured going phonetic might help…) Anyway, I am a native speaker of Rugaohua (a Jianghuai variety of Mandarin) and speak Putonghua as a second language/dialect. I like both of them but would choose Rugaohua if I were only allowed to keep one of them. Why the little-known dialect? Rugaohua keeps vestiges of checked syllables 入声, although the historical */-p, -t, -k/ codas have long gone, replaced by a rather weak glottal stop.

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