The Wenchang dialect (simplified Chinese: 文昌话; traditional Chinese: 文昌話; pinyin: Wénchānghuà) is a dialect of Hainanese spoken in Wenchang, a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan, an island province in southern China.
It is considered the prestige form of Hainanese, and is used by the provincial broadcasting media.
The initials of the Wenchang dialect are as follows:[4] The semivowels [w] and [j] are in complementary distribution with [ɦ], and may be treated as allophones of the same phoneme.
[5] The voiced stops /d/ and /g/ occur with only about ten words each.
[8] The possible finals are:[9] The Wenchang dialect has six tones on isolated syllabes:[10]