Putian dialect

The Putian dialect (Pu-Xian Min: / 莆田話; ) is a dialect of Pu-Xian Min Chinese spoken in urban area of Putian, which is a prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian province.

Phonology
The Putian dialect has 15 initials, 40 rimes and 7 tones.

Tone sandhi
Putian 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 the first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable):