Region Wuxi, Jiangsu province Glottolog None | Linguist list wuu-wux | |
Native to People's Republic of China Native speakers 2–4 million (date missing) Language family Sino-Tibetan
Chinese
Wu
Taihu
Piling
Wuxi dialect | ||
Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxī huà, Wu : mu1 siq1 , Wuxi Dialect : [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.
References
Wuxi dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA