在研究閩北話的參考文獻當中由加拿大基督教聖公會牧師 William Charles White（懷履光）（1873-1960）在 1901 年所編著的 A Chinese ‒ English dictionary of the Kienning dialect arranged alphabetically according to the Kienning（《建寧方言華英詞典》）（以下簡稱《建寧》） 是早期一批運用描寫語言學方法紀錄的閩北話材料，這部字典詳盡的提供了一百多年前閩北話的語音材料本文擬從全書的記音材料，通過音節的排比檢索、同音字表的製作和音位歸納的原則，整理出《建寧》一書所記錄的閩北話音系；並和同時期福清人林端材所編纂的《建州八音字義便覽》、現代記錄閩北話的文獻以及筆者 2015 年 6 月在建甌縣城所調查的建甌話（城關音）做比較，以便瞭解閩北話百年來語音的演變發展情形。

　　Among studies of the Northern Min dialects, A Chinese-English Dictionary of the Kien-Ning Dialect: Arranged Alphabetically According to the Kien-Ning Romanized (“Jianning Dialect Chinese-English Dictionary”) (hereinafter referred to as “Jianning”) was edited in 1901 by William Charles White (1873-1960), a bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Its materials are based on an early Northern Min dialect using the methods of descriptive linguistics. This dictionary provides detailed phonetic materials of Northern Min from more than a hundred years ago. This article intends to sort out the Northern Min phonology, recorded in “Jianning”, through syllable comparison, homophone tables and phoneme induction. We compare “Jianning” with the “Jianzhou Eight-Yin Characters Meaning Handbook”, compiled by Lin Duancai of Fuqing of the same period, modern documents about the Northern Min dialects, and the Jian’ou dialect (Chengguan accent), investigated by the author in Jian’ou County in June 2015, in order to understand the evolution and development of the pronunciation of the Northern Min dialects over the past century.

閩北方言; 建寧方言; 閩北辭書

Northern Min dialects; Jianning dialect; Northern Min; Dictionaries