Wuxi dialect

Dialect of Wu Chinese

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Wuxi

無錫話
Native to| People's Republic of China
Region| Wuxi, Jiangsu province

Language family

Sino-Tibetan

* Sinitic
* Chinese
* Wu
* Taihu
* Su-Jia-Hu
* Wuxi

Language codes
ISO 639-3| –

Linguist List

| `wuu-wux`
Glottolog| `wuxi1234`
Wuxi dialect

Simplified Chinese| 无锡话
Traditional Chinese| 無錫話
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| wu/ xi- hua\

Romanization| mu1 sik1 wo3
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping| mou sek wa
Reading “Lang Tao Sha Ling” by Li Yu in Wuxinese

The Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxīhuà, Wu: mu1 sik1 wo3, Wuxi dialect: [vu˨˨˧ siɪʔ˦ ɦu˨]) is a dialect of Wu. It is spoken in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, China.

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

## Phonology

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### Initials

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[1] | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal

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Nasal | m | n |  | ɲ | ŋ |
Plosive/

Affricate

| voiceless | p | t | ts | tɕ | k | ʔ
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tsʰ | tɕʰ | kʰ |
slack voice | b | d | dz | dʑ | g |
Fricative | voiceless | f |  | s | ɕ | x | h
slack voice | v |  |  |  |  | ɦ
Lateral |  | l |  |  |  |

### Finals

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### Tones

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Tones  | Middle Chinese tone

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píng 平 | shǎng 上 | qù 去 | rù 入
yīn 陰 | ˥˧ (53) | ˧˥ (35) | ˦ (44) | ʔ˥ (55)
yáng 陽 | ˨˦ (24)  | ˨˩˧ (213)  | ʔ˩˨ (12)

## References

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1. ^ Chao 1976, p. 49.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wuxi dialect.

* Television hosts discuss differences between Wuxi and Suzhou dialects (YouTube)

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