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Wu dialect - a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

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Lu Xun, a Wu dialect speaker who also knew the Guanhua koine and spoke and wrote Mandarin with a dialect accent, wrote: "A person sharing the cabin with me was from Taiwan; he could speak Xiamen dialect, which I don't understand; he could not understand my blue-green Mandarin" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1927: 384).

Whence came Mandarin? Qing Guanhua, the Beijing dialect, and the national language standard in early Republican China

Accordingly, Hangzhou is commonly classified as a Wu dialect because it has a tripartite division of the manner of articulation of initial consonants, including voiced initials corresponding to the QYS zhuo [CHINESE CHARACTER NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] "muddy" initials.

Chinese Dialect Classification: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. (Reviews of Books)

As noted above, in a large number of Wu dialects, where only words are elicited, speakers are often not aware of the underlying tone of any syllable other than the first, owing to the nature of Wu dialect tone sandhi.

Problems in Comparative Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka

However, the negative perfective uses a form more closely comparable to Wu dialect types (first two from 1.17a, p.

A second look at the 'Towa Sanyo': clues to the nature of the Guanhuah studied by Japanese in the early eighteenth century

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