• Xuanzhou Wu (Chinese: 宣州吳語; pinyin: Xuānzhōu Wúyǔ) is the western Wu Chinese language, spoken in and around Xuancheng, Anhui province. The language has...
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    province. Quzhou dialect Jiangshan dialect Qingtian dialect Xuanzhou (宣州): Spoken in and around Xuancheng, Anhui province. This part of Wu is becoming less...
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    with other clusters Local dialect (点 diǎn), which are the dialects sampled by the Atlas In the list below, local dialects are not listed. Groups are...
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    neighboring Jiangsu province. Non-Mandarin dialects are spoken to the south of the Yangzi: dialects of Wu are spoken in Xuancheng prefecture-level city...
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  • Mandarin, the dialect of Yangzhou, to Taihu Wu dialects. In Jiangnan itself, multiple subdialects of Wu competed for the position of prestige dialect. In 1984...
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  • Wuxi and Shanghai. It is also partially intelligible with dialects spoken in other areas of the Wu cultural sphere such as Hangzhou and Ningbo. However, it...
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    speak Guangfu dialects natively. Ngau–Lau dialects are spoken in inland areas of western Guangdong and eastern Guangxi, and include the dialect of Yulin (Bobai)...
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    200,000 passengers use the service daily. The city is served by the Wuhu Xuanzhou Airport which opened on April 30, 2021. Wuhu has one Yangtze River crossing—the...
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  • Wenzhounese (redirect from Oujiang Wu)
    It is the most divergent division of Wu Chinese, with little to no mutual intelligibility with other Wu dialects or any other variety of Chinese. It features...
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    Hakka Chinese (redirect from Hakka dialects)
    Taiwanese Hakka dialects and mainland China's Hakka dialects; even in Taiwan, two major local varieties of Hakka exist. The Meixian dialect (Moiyen) of northeast...
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    defeat the 200,000-strong army from Wei's rival state Wu. Several decades of warring in Hefei between Wu and Wei followed this battle. During the 4th to the...
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  • They mostly speak variants of Taihu Wu Chinese. Other languages spoken are Jianghuai Mandarin and Xuanzhou Wu Chinese. The Shanghainese people are centered...
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    considered a Yongjiang dialect or Mingzhou dialect (as both terms are synonymous), and is closely related to the Taihu Wu dialects of Zhoushan. In terms...
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  • speak standard Mandarin rather than the Beijing dialect. According to a UN report, nearly 100 Chinese dialects, especially those spoken by the 55 ethnic minorities...
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    Cave Zhenfeng Pagoda Culture Dialects Central Plains Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin Taihu Wu dialects Xuanzhou Wu dialects Huizhou Chinese Gan Chinese...
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    Middle Chinese are retained in Wu dialects such as Suzhou and Shanghai, as well as Old Xiang dialects and a few Gan dialects, but have merged with voiceless...
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    Huizhou Chinese (redirect from Hui dialects)
    corridor along the northern edge of the Hui group, carrying influence from Xuanzhou Wu. Huizhou varieties differ from township to township. People in different...
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    many more than 4 tones, due to influence from the neighbouring Wu dialects. Mandarin dialects frequently employ neutral tones in the second syllables of words...
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    of the Yangtze". The people of Anqing have a unique dialect that mixed with the Gan Chinese, Wu Chinese and Lower Yangtze Mandarin. It is therefore quite...
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    Gan Chinese (redirect from Gan dialects)
    in terms of phonetics. There are different dialects of Gan; the Nanchang dialect is the prestige dialect. Like all other varieties of Chinese, there...
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    Yuehai Yue (redirect from Guangfu dialects)
    principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form. Guangfu dialects Guangzhou dialect Hong Kong dialect Macau...
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  • bordering Zhejiang. It is not mutually intelligible with Taihu Wu. Quzhou dialect Jiangshan dialect Qingtian dialect Lishui dialect Sinolect.org v t e...
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  • similarities with the other Wu dialects; however, grammatically and lexically, it shows many Mandarin tendencies. Although the Hangzhou dialect has the basic characteristics...
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    Meng (178−219), Three Kingdoms era military general serving the Kingdom of Wu Ni Sichong (1868–1924), general, part of the Anhui clique until resigning...
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    Cave Zhenfeng Pagoda Culture Dialects Central Plains Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin Taihu Wu dialects Xuanzhou Wu dialects Huizhou Chinese Gan Chinese...
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  • "speakers of other Wu dialects traditionally treat the Shanghai vernacular somewhat contemptuously as a mixture of Suzhou and Ningbo dialects." This has led...
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