Wuzhou Wu Explained

Wuzhou Wu
States:People's Republic of China
Region:Zhejiang
Speakers:4 million
Ref:[1]
Date:1987
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Sinitic
Fam3:Wu
Iso3:none
Iso6:wzou
Glotto:wuzh1238
Glottorefname:Wuzhou Wu
Lingua:79-AAA-df

Wuzhou Wu (婺州話 or 務州片) is a Southern Wu Chinese language spoken in and around Jinhua in Zhejiang province. It is at best only poorly intelligible with Taihu Wu. Wuzhou Wu is named after the ancient Wuzhou County that existed in modern-day Jinhua.

Dialects

Jinhua is the chief and representative dialect of Wuzhou.

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20130513120020/http://sinolect.org/images/y-roundbig2-k400.gif Sinolect.org