Wuxi dialect

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Wuxi
無錫話
Native to	People's Republic of China
Region	Wuxi, Jiangsu province
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Wu Taihu Su–Jia–Hu Wuxi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	wuu-wux
Glottolog	wuxi1234

Wuxi dialect
Simplified Chinese	无锡话
Traditional Chinese	無錫話
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin wu/ xi- hua\ Wu Romanization mu1 sik1 wo3 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping mou sek wa

Reading “Lang Tao Sha Ling” by Li Yu in Wuxinese

The Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxīhuà, Wu: mu1 sik1 wo3, Wuxi dialect: ) is a dialect of Wu. It is spoken in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, China.

It has many similarities with Shanghainese and the 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.

Phonology

Initials

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts	tɕ	k	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tsʰ	tɕʰ	kʰ
	slack voice	b	d	dz	dʑ	g
Fricative	voiceless	f		s	ɕ	x	h
	slack voice	v					ɦ
Lateral			l

Finals

Tones

Tones

	Middle Chinese tone
	píng 平	shǎng 上	qù 去	rù 入
yīn 陰	˥˧ (53)	˧˥ (35)	˦ (44)	ʔ˥ (55)
yáng 陽	˨˦ (24)	˨˩˧ (213)		ʔ˩˨ (12)

References

1. ^ Chao 1976, p. 49.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wuxi dialect.

• Television hosts discuss differences between Wuxi and Suzhou dialects (YouTube)

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