Wuhan dialect
| Wuhan dialect | |
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| 武汉话 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Wuhan, Hubei |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
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Linguist list
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cmn-xwu |
| Glottolog | None |
Wuhan dialect (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: , local pronunciation: [u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵]; pinyin: wǔhànhuà), also known as Hankou dialect, belongs to the Wu–Tian branch of Southwestern Mandarin spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei. Wuhan dialect has limited mutual intelligibility with Standard Chinese. Grammatically, it has been observed to have a similar aspect system with Xiang Chinese.
Like other Southwestern Mandarin varieties, there are four tones in the Wuhan dialect. Words with the checked tone in Middle Chinese became the light level tone.
The morphology of the Wuhan dialect shows both strong features of Southern Chinese and phenomena of language contact with neighbouring languages, particularly Xiang languge.
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