Wu dialects

E84960

Wu dialects are a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in the Yangtze River Delta region of eastern China, including areas such as Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, and parts of Zhejiang and Anhui.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dialect group
Sinitic language group
country China
developedFrom Old Chinese
glottologCode wuch1236
hasAlternativeName Wu
Wu Chinese
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
analytic language
hasMajorVariety Hangzhounese
Ningbonese
Shanghainese
Suzhounese
Wenzhounese
hasNumberOfSpeakers tens of millions of speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature checked syllables
complex tone sandhi
large vowel inventory
tone
voiced obstruents
hasStandardVariety Shanghainese
surface form: Shanghainese (de facto urban prestige variety)
hasSubgroup Oujiang Wu
Taihu Wu
Taizhou Wu
Wuzhou Wu
historicalOrigin Middle Chinese
influencedBy Standard Mandarin (lexicon and usage)
influences local culture in the Yangtze River Delta
isoCode wuu
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
surface form: Sino-Tibetan
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Wu dialects to varying degrees
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese
Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard Mandarin
region eastern China
surface form: East China

Yangtze River Delta
surface form: Lower Yangtze region
spokenIn Shanghai
Yangtze River Delta
Zhejiang Province
surface form: Zhejiang

eastern China
parts of Anhui
southern Jiangsu
subclassOf Chinese language
Chinese language
surface form: Sinitic languages
usedAs vernacular language in Shanghai
vernacular language in parts of Zhejiang
vernacular language in southern Jiangsu
usedIn local media in Shanghai region
local opera traditions such as Yue opera
writingSystem Chinese characters

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

Anhui hasDialectGroup Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Jinhua dialect
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Taizhou dialect
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Yongkang dialect
Wu Chinese hasRepresentativeDialect Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Suzhou dialect
Wu Chinese hasEndonym Wu dialects
this entity surface form: 吳語
Wu Chinese hasEndonym Wu dialects
this entity surface form: 吴语
Suzhounese closelyRelatedTo Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Wuxi dialect
Taihu Wu partOf Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Wu dialect continuum
Taihu Wu alternativeName Wu dialects
this entity surface form: Taihu dialects