Ningbonese

E317828

Ningbonese is a major regional variety of Chinese spoken in and around the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ningbonese canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese variety
Sinitic language variety
regional language
belongsTo Northern Wu
surface form: Northern Wu subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Shanghainese
Hangzhounese
surface form: Shaoxing dialect
endangermentStatus under pressure from Mandarin in younger generations
hasAlternativeName Ningbo dialect
Ningbohua
hasDialect rural Ningbo dialects
suburban Ningbo dialects
urban Ningbo dialect
hasFeature checked tone syllables in some varieties
lexical items not intelligible to Mandarin speakers
significant phonological differences from Mandarin
tone language
voiced obstruents in traditional phonology
hasGrammarFeature SVO basic word order
use of sentence-final particles
hasLexiconSource Classical Chinese
Standard Mandarin loanwords
local Wu Chinese vocabulary
hasPhonologicalSystem complex tone sandhi patterns
rich vowel inventory
influencedBy Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard Mandarin
influences speech of Ningbo diaspora communities
ISOStatus does not have a separate ISO 639-3 code from Wu Chinese
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Cantonese
Mandarin Chinese
mutualIntelligibility not mutually intelligible with Standard Mandarin
partially intelligible with other Wu varieties
partOf Chinese language
surface form: Chinese languages

Sinitic languages
region Zhejiang Province
surface form: eastern Zhejiang
spokenIn China
Ningbo-Zhoushan
surface form: Ningbo

Zhejiang Province
surface form: Zhejiang province
status major regional variety of Chinese
subclassOf Wu Chinese
usedAlongside Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard Mandarin
usedBy local population of Ningbo
usedIn daily communication in Ningbo
local folk arts in Ningbo
local media in Ningbo
writingSystem Chinese characters

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Ningbonese
Wu dialects hasMajorVariety Ningbonese