Region Anhui | Glottolog xuan1238 | |
Native to People's Republic of China Native speakers (3.1 million cited 1987) Language family Sino-Tibetan
Chinese
Wu
Xuanzhou Wu Linguasphere 79-AAA-dc (Tai-gao) + 79-AAA-dd (Tong-jing) + 79-AAA-de (Shi-ling)
(together comprising parts of "remnant" west-Wu or Xuan-zhou) | ||
Xuanzhou Wu (宣州片) is a western branch of Wu Chinese spoken in and around Xuancheng, Anhui province. The dialect has declined since the Taiping Rebellion, with an influx of Mandarin-speaking immigrants from north of the Yangtze River.
Dialects
Xuancheng dialect is representative.
References
Xuanzhou Wu dialects Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA