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The Wenchang dialect (p=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.
| +Wenchang dialect initials ! colspan=2 | !! Bilabial !! Dental consonant !! Palatal !! Velar consonant !! Glottal |
The semivowels and are in complementary distribution with , and may be treated as of the same phoneme. The voiced stops and occur with only about ten words each.
There are five vowels, , , , and . The high vowels and may also occur as medials.
The possible finals are:
| +Wenchang dialect finals ! colspan=3 | Vocalic codas ! colspan=3 | Nasal codas ! colspan=3 | Stop codas |
| ak 北 | |||
| eik 益 | |||
| iak 菊 | |||
| iɔk 育 | |||
| ɔk 乐 | |||
| uak 廓 | |||
The Wenchang dialect has six tones on isolated syllabes:
| +Wenchang tones |
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