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Wuxi dialect

Wuxi dialect
無錫話
Native to People's Republic of China
Region Wuxi, Jiangsu province
Native speakers
2–4 million (date missing)
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist list
wuu-wux
Glottolog None
Wuxi dialect
Simplified Chinese 无锡话
Traditional Chinese 無錫話

Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxī huà, Wu : mu1 siq1 , Wuxi Dialect : IPA: [vu˨˨˧ siɪʔ˦]) is a dialect of Wu. It is spoken in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province of China.

It has many similarities with the Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect. It is mutually intelligible with the Changzhou dialect to which it is most closely related. It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language.


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