The Hui'an dialect (), is a variety of Chinese mostly spoken in Hui'an in South Fujian Province, China. It belongs to the Hokkien subgroup of Southern Min. Phonology The Hui'an dialect has 14 phonemic initials and over 80 finals. Consonants The three voiced phonemes , and are realized as the nasal stops , and , respectively, before nasalized finals. The phoneme may be treated as a plosive, i.e. . The alveolar phonemes , and are palatalized to , and , respectively, before . Finals Grammar The demonstrative system has five pairs of pronouns with a two-way distinction: Comparison with other varieties of Hokkien Compared with the Quanzhou dialect (spoken in the central urban area of Quanzhou city), the greatest differences are present in the rimes: Notes References Hokkien-language dialects Quanzhou