South Jiangsu province, North Zhejiang province, southeastern Anhui, and Shanghai. Linguistic exclave in Cangnan county in southern Zhejiang province.
Native speakers
(47 million cited 1987)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic
Chinese
Wu
Taihu Wu
Writing system
Chinese characters
Language codes
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
ISO 639-6
taiu tupn
Glottolog
taih1244
Linguasphere
79-AAA-db
Taihu Wu (吳語太湖片) or Northern Wu (北部吳語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken in much of the southern part of the province of Jiangsu, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, the southern part of Nantong, Jingjiang and Danyang; the municipality of Shanghai; and the northern part of Zhejiang province, including Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Huzhou, and Jiaxing. A notable exception is the dialect of the town of Jinxiang, which is a linguistic exclave of Taihu Wu in Zhenan Min-speaking Cangnan county of Wenzhou prefecture in Zhejiang province. Speakers in regions around Taihu Lake and Hangzhou Bay, are the largest population among all Wu speakers. Taihu Wu dialects such as Shanghainese, Shaoxing and Ningbo are mutually intelligible even for L2 Taihu speakers.
^Sinolect.org. "Untitled" (Pie Chart) (in Chinese). Archived from the original (GIF) on 2013-05-13.
TaihuWu (吳語太湖片) or Northern Wu (北部吳語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken in much of the southern part of the province of Jiangsu, including Suzhou, Wuxi...
example, 溫州話 (Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʔy˧꜖ tɕiɤu˧꜖ ɦo˩꜒꜔]) is used for Wenzhounese. Affixing 閒話' is also common, and more typical of the Taihu division...
Northern Wu, or TaihuWu, is the largest subbranch of Wu Chinese, and is spoken in Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, and northern Zhejiang. These languages...
Wu (台州片) is a Southern Wu Chinese language spoken in and around Taizhou in Zhejiang province. It is to some extent mutually intelligible with Taihu Wu...
of Jiangnan region usually speak variants of TaihuWu dialects. Wu Chinese is spoken chiefly in the Wu region. Jiangnanese people consist of both Shanghainese...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
Taihu (Chinese: 太湖), also known as Lake Tai or Lake Taihu, is a lake in the Yangtze Delta and one of the largest freshwater lakes in China. The lake is...
Wu (婺州話 or 務州片) is a Southern Wu Chinese language spoken in and around Jinhua in Zhejiang province. It is at best only poorly intelligible with Taihu...
as in some areas of Zhangjiagang. It is considered to be a variety of TaihuWu, which is intelligible with Shanghainese. Zhang, Huiying (2009). Chóng...
TaihuWu dialect, or a Northern Wu dialect, spoken in the county of Cangnan of the prefecture-level city Wenzhou. It is considered to be a TaihuWu linguistic...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
Culture Dialects Central Plains Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin TaihuWu dialects Xuanzhou Wu dialects Huizhou Chinese Gan Chinese Education University of...
dialect (as both terms are synonymous), and is closely related to the TaihuWu dialects of Zhoushan. In terms of inter-intelligibility between dialects...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
TaihuWu subgroup of the Wu Chinese language family. This is different from the national language, Mandarin, which is mutually unintelligible with Wu...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
Chinese. Languages spoken within the province include Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Wu, Hui, Gan and small portion of Central Plains Mandarin. The name "Anhui" derives...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
List of universities and colleges in Zhejiang Culture Wuyue culture Wu Chinese TaihuWu Hangzhou dialect Ningbo dialect Wenzhou dialect (Rui'an dialect)...
(由拳縣). 231: Wild rice (野稻) of Jiaxing informed Sun Quan of the Kingdom of Wu that there was a sign of auspice, so Sun changed Youchuan to Hexing District...
including those of Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, speak the Hangzhou dialect, a Wu dialect unique to the area. Hangzhou's dialect differs from those of regions...
a separate group of the TaihuWu subgroup. With nearly 14 million speakers, Shanghainese is also the largest single form of Wu Chinese. Since the late...
ancient Chinese literature. Sun Quan, as a hero and the ruler of the kingdom of Wu in The Three Kingdoms period. In modern times writer Dafu Yu, revolutionary...
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