| Wencheng | |
| States: | People's Republic of China |
| Region: | Wenzhou prefecture, Zhejiang province |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Sinitic |
| Fam3: | Chinese |
| Fam4: | Wu |
| Fam5: | Oujiang |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Iso6: | wceg |
| Glotto: | none |
| Notice: | IPA |
The Wencheng dialect is a dialect of Wu Chinese. It is an Oujiang dialect, but its tone system differs from other Oujiang dialects such as Wenzhounese.
The most important difference between eastern Oujiang dialects such as Wencheng and Wenzhou proper are tonal differences and the retention of pronounced as //f// before pronounced as //o//:
| 八 | 风 | 到 | 晓得 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wenzhou | puu | hoŋ | tə | ɕadei | |
| Wencheng | bɔ | foŋ | tɶ | ɕoli |
Wencheng shares the long vowels of Wenzhonese entering tone (spelled puu above) as well as the abrupt glottal stops of the shang tones. The shang and ru tones are largely similar to Wenzhonese, but there are no falling tones—yang ping and yin qu are level—and yang qu is dipping rather than simply low.
| Tone number | Tone contour | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yin ping (陰平) | pronounced as /˧/ 3 | |
| 2 | yang ping (陽平) | pronounced as /ʱ˨/ 2 | |
| 3 | yin shang (陰上) | pronounced as /˧˦ʔ/ 34 | |
| 4 | yang shang (陽上) | pronounced as /ʱ˨˧ʔ/ 23 | |
| 5 | yin qu (陰去) | pronounced as /˨/ 2 | |
| 6 | yang qu (陽去) | pronounced as /ʱ˧˨˧/ 323 | |
| 7 | yin ru (陰入) | pronounced as /˨˧ː/ 23 | |
| 8 | yang ru (陽入) | pronounced as /ʱ˨˩˧ː/ 213 |