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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Statements (49)

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 (de facto urban prestige variety)
linked to: Shanghainese
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
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Wu dialects to varying degrees
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Cantonese
Standard Mandarin
linked to: Standard Chinese
region East China
linked to: eastern China

Lower Yangtze region
linked to: Yangtze River Delta
spokenIn Shanghai
Yangtze River Delta
Zhejiang
linked to: Zhejiang Province

eastern China
parts of Anhui
southern Jiangsu
subclassOf Chinese language
Sinitic languages
linked to: Chinese language
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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Referenced by (10)

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

Anhui hasDialectGroup Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Jinhua dialect
linked to: Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Taizhou dialect
linked to: Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasMajorVariety Yongkang dialect
linked to: Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasRepresentativeDialect Suzhou dialect
linked to: Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasEndonym 吳語
linked to: Wu dialects
Wu Chinese hasEndonym 吴语
linked to: Wu dialects
Suzhounese closelyRelatedTo Wuxi dialect
linked to: Wu dialects
Taihu Wu partOf Wu dialect continuum
linked to: Wu dialects
Taihu Wu alternativeName Taihu dialects
linked to: Wu dialects