Written Shanghainese
| Shanghainese | |
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| 上海話 / 上海话 Zaanhehho 上海閒話/上海闲话 Zaanheh-hehho 滬語 / 沪语 Hu nyy |
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| Pronunciation | [z̥ɑ̃̀héɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀], [ɦùɲý] |
| Native to | China, overseas communities |
| Region | City of Shanghai and surrounding Yangtze River Delta |
| Ethnicity | Shanghainese people |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | suji |
wuu-sha |
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| Glottolog |
shan1293 Shanghainese
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| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-dbb > |
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Shanghainese Romanization |
Zaanhehho [z̥ɑ̃̀héɦʊ̀] |
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| Literal meaning | Shanghai language | ||||||||||
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Shanghainese Romanization |
Shanghe Hhehho [z̥ɑ̃̀hé ɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀] |
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| Literal meaning | Shanghai speech | ||||||||||
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Shanghainese Romanization |
[ɦuɲy] | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Hu (Shanghai) language | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shànghǎihuà |
| Wu | |
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Shanghainese Romanization |
Zaanhehho [z̥ɑ̃̀héɦʊ̀] |
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| Wu | |
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Shanghainese Romanization |
Shanghe Hhehho [z̥ɑ̃̀hé ɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀] |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Hùyǔ |
| Wu | |
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Shanghainese Romanization |
[ɦuɲy] |
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, Hu language or Hu dialect, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the City of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Shanghainese, like other Wu variants, is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese outside the Wu region such as Mandarin, sharing just 29% lexical similarity with the Mandarin heard in Beijing.
In English, "Shanghainese" sometimes refers to all Wu languages, variants and dialects, although they are only partially intelligible with one another. Shanghainese proper is a representative language of Taihu Wu; it contains vocabulary and expressions from the entire Taihu Wu area of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. With nearly 14 million speakers, Shanghainese is also the largest single form of Wu Chinese. It serves as the lingua franca of the entire Yangtze River Delta region.
Shanghainese is rich in vowels [i y ɪ ʏ ei ø ɛ ə ɐ a ɑ ɔ ɤɯ o ʊ u] (twelve of which are phonemic) and in consonants. Like other Taihu Wu dialects, Shanghainese has voiced initials [b d ɡ ɦ z v dʑ ʑ]: neither Cantonese nor Mandarin has voiced initial stops or affricates. The Shanghainese tonal system is also significantly different from other Chinese varieties, sharing more similarities with the Japanese pitch accent, with two level tonal contrasts (high and low), whereas Cantonese and Mandarin are typical of contour tonal languages.
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