Old Xiang

<p>Old Xiang, also known as Lou-Shao (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 娄邵片; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 婁邵片; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>Lóu Shào piàn</i>; lit. '<a href="/facts/Loudi/AyTnwXU7">Loudi</a> and <a href="/facts/Shaoshan/Wgpd0CvX">Shaoshan</a> subgroup'), is a <a href="/facts/Conservative_and_innovative_language/0R06rgSs">conservative</a> <a href="/facts/Xiang_Chinese/cmCkwS74">Xiang Chinese</a> language. It is spoken in the central areas of <a href="/facts/Hunan/1lbDstf7">Hunan</a> where it has been to some extent isolated from the neighboring Chinese languages, <a href="/facts/Southwestern_Mandarin/oHAkdluG">Southwestern Mandarin</a> and <a href="/facts/Gan_Chinese/2t0n5KPw">Gan</a> languages, and it retains the <a href="/facts/Voiced_plosive/okC9pztc">voiced plosives</a> of <a href="/facts/Middle_Chinese/zQNbA7H7">Middle Chinese</a>, which are otherwise only preserved in <a href="/facts/Wu_Chinese/IXnCCme0">Wu</a> languages like <a href="/facts/Shanghainese/o4MEAwa2">Shanghainese</a>. See <a href="/facts/Shuangfeng_dialect/4XquKUmy">Shuangfeng dialect</a> for details. <a href="/facts/Mao_Zedong/tU9LMYH3">Mao Zedong</a> was a speaker of Old Xiang with his native <a href="/facts/Shaoshan/Wgpd0CvX">Shaoshan</a> dialect. 
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Old Xiang