Wuxi dialect

Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxī huà, Wu : mu1 sik1 wo3 , Wuxi dialect : [vu˨˨˧ siɪʔ˦ ɦu˨]) is a dialect of Wu. It is spoken in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province of China.

Wuxi dialect
無錫話
Native toPeople's Republic of China
RegionWuxi, Jiangsu province
Native speakers
2–4 million
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
wuu-wux
Glottologwuxi1234[1]
Wuxi dialect
Simplified Chinese无锡话
Traditional Chinese無錫話

It has many similarities with the Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect. It is mutually intelligible with the Changzhou dialect to which it is most closely related. It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wuxi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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