Old Xiang, also known as Lou-Shao (娄邵片 / 婁邵片) is a conservative form of Xiang Chinese, or Hunnanese. It is spoken in the central areas of Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 where it has been to some extent isolated from neighboring Chinese languages, Mandarin and Gan, and it retains the voiced stops of Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese , also called Ancient Chinese by the linguist Bernhard Karlgren, refers to the Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties...

, which are otherwise only preserved in Wu dialects like Shanghainese

Shanghainese

Shanghainese , or the Shanghai language , is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai and the surrounding region. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Shanghainese, like other Wu dialects, is largely not mutually intelligible with other Chinese varieties...

. See Shuangfeng dialect

Shuangfeng dialect

Shuangfeng dialect is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province.-Consonants:-Tones:Phonemically, Shuangfeng dialect has three tones. However, phonetically the pitch of a syllable depends on the voicing of the initial consonant, so that these are counted as...

 for details.

Dialects

Shuangfeng dialect is representative.

• Shuangfeng
  Shuangfeng dialect
  Shuangfeng dialect is a dialect of Xiang Chinese, spoken in Shuangfeng County, Hunan province.-Consonants:-Tones:Phonemically, Shuangfeng dialect has three tones. However, phonetically the pitch of a syllable depends on the voicing of the initial consonant, so that these are counted as...
  
  
• Loudi dialect
• Shaoyang dialect
• Qidong dialect
• Qiyang dialect
  Qiyang dialect
  Qiyang dialect is a dialect of Xiang Chinese spoken in Qiyang County, Hunan province.-Tones:Qiyang dialect is quite unusual in that it is reported to have two "double contour" tones, high and low fall–rise–fall, or perhaps high fall – low fall and low fall – high fall: the entering tones yin qu ...
  
  

These are spoken in:

• Hunan province(湖南省): Lóudǐ city (婁底市), Xiāngxiāng (湘鄉), Shuāngfēng (雙峰), Liányuán (漣源), Lěngshuǐjiāng city (冷水江市), Xīnhuà (新化), Ānhuà (安化), Shàoyáng city (邵陽市), Shàoyáng (邵陽), Dòngkǒu (洞口), Lōnghuí (隆回), Wǔgāng (武岡), Qídōng (祁東), Qíyáng (祁陽), Chéngbù (城步), Xīnníng (新寧) and Máyáng (麻陽).
• Guangxi province (廣西省): Quánzhōu (全州), Guànyáng (灌陽), Zīyuán (資源) and Xīng'ān (興安)