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The Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxīhuà, 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, China.
Wuxi | |
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無錫話 | |
Native to | People's Republic of China |
Region | Wuxi, Jiangsu province |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
wuu-wux | |
Glottolog | wuxi1234 |
Wuxi dialect | |||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 无锡话 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 無錫話 | ||||||||||||||
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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.[citation needed] It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language.
Phonology
editInitials
edit[1] | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Plosive/ | 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
editTones
editMiddle Chinese tone | ||||
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píng 平 | shǎng 上 | qù 去 | rù 入 | |
yīn 陰 | ˥˧ (53) | ˧˥ (35) | ˦ (44) | ʔ˥ (55) |
yáng 陽 | ˨˦ (24) | ˨˩˧ (213) | ʔ˩˨ (12) |
References
edit- ^ Chao 1976, p. 49.
External links
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