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.
Wuzhou Wu | |
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Native to | People's Republic of China |
Region | Zhejiang |
Native speakers | (4 million cited 1987)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
ISO 639-6 | wzou |
Glottolog | wuzh1238 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-df |
Dialects
editJinhua is the chief and representative dialect of Wuzhou.
References
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