현대 중국어 비음의 언어유형론적 고찰

This study attempts to characterize universals and individuality of Chinese through comparing world’s languages, while filling up the empty spot of World’s languages Typology study on Chinese, with analyzing Typical characters of Chinese. The study starts from nasal consonants among phonological system of 7 major dialects of Modern Chinese. Dividing Velar nasal into consonants and onset, coda according to the position within syllable structure, analyzing patterns of the Modern Chinese nasal consonants and Hierarchy of Markedness. The Hierarchy of Markedness of the Modern Chinese nasal consonant is ‘m ≤ŋ < n’. The Hierarchy of Markedness on onset position is set as ‘m < n < ŋ’, The Hierarchy of Markedness in coda position is set as ‘ŋ < n < m’. This is very different phenomena of nasal’s typological universals of world languages.