Wuxi dialect | |
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無錫話 | |
Native to | People's Republic of China |
Region | Wuxi, Jiangsu province |
Native speakers
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2–4 million (date missing) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Linguist list
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wuu-wux |
Glottolog | None |
Wuxi dialect | |||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 无锡话 | ||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 無錫話 | ||||||||||||||
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Transcriptions | |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | wu/ xi- hua\ |
Wu | |
Romanization | mu1 siq1 wo3 |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | mou sek wa |
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.