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(Text) CC BY-SA