Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, praised by Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty as "the first advantage of mountain springs", belongs to the Central Plains Mandarin dialect. It has the main feature of Central Plains Mandarin, that is, the ancient entering tone disappears, in which the consonants of ancient entering tone and sub-voiced tone are pronounced in Yin Ping today, and the consonants of ancient full voiced tone are pronounced in Yangping today. Some areas are divided into sharp sound groups, which strictly distinguish flat tongue sounds from front and back nasal sounds. Suqian dialect has a heavy tone and a nonstandard tone. The tone value of Suqian dialect is close to that of Mandarin, the tone is close to that of Mandarin and the tone is close to that of Mandarin. It is a typical "old story" of the Central Plains. The three counties under Suqian's jurisdiction use Haisi dialect, that is, Jianghuai Mandarin, which is characterized by no distinction between N and L, with entering tone, no nasal sound and flat tongue sound.
A typical example in Suqian dialect is that F and H are indistinguishable! When most people in Suqian speak, on the one hand, they pronounce the word "F" as "H". Such as: missing (China); The wind and bees say (Hong); Fang and Fang are called (yellow); Can fly, do nothing (benefit); Call husband and father (Hu); Say "Fan" and "Punishment" as (Huan). On the other hand, words with the root of the tongue H are said to be labial and toothed; Like a flower, the word is like (FA); Say ring, commutation, etc. (fan); Yellow and yellow are called Fang; Say that benefits and benefits are right and wrong; Will get married, mixed as (points) and so on.
There is also a special title of person in dialect. When Suqian people address kinship, they add the word "An" before the specific address, and at the same time shorten the continuous disyllabic words in Mandarin to one. For example, "Dad", "Mom", "Grandma", "Brother" and "Sister" in Mandarin are "My Dad", "My Mom", "My Milk", "My Brother" and "My Sister" in Suqian dialect. In addition, Suqian dialect has its own specific appellation. For example, we will call my grandfather "my father", my father's brother "my grandfather", my uncle "my grandfather" and my grandmother "my grandmother" and "Nan" and so on.