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Old Guangde dialect

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Linguist list
  
wuu-tai

Glottolog
  
None

Native to
  
People's Republic of China

Region
  
Guangde county in Anhui province

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Wu Taihu Wu dialects Su-Jia-Hu dialect group Old Guangde dialect

Old Guangde dialect is a Northern Wu dialect spoken in southeastern Anhui province in southeastern Guangde county, it is now losing ground to New Guangde dialect, a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. It is closely related to Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect, but its closest relative is Huzhou dialect. It is a Northern Wu dialect exclave surrounded by speakers of Jianghuai Mandarin and Xuanzhou Wu.

References

Old Guangde dialect Wikipedia