Wun.
/wuː/, U.S. /wu/ Used attributively of a group of Chinese dialects spoken in Shanghai, the south of Jiangsu province, and most parts of Zhejiang province, China. Also absol.
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Hokkien1832
Amoy1844
Cantonese1857
Hakka1881
Wu1908
Szechuanese1918
wenyan1936
Hunanese1937
Gan1943
Min1959
Yi1960
Teochew1970
yüeh1978
the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Chinese > dialects of
Pekingese1849
Hakka1864
Amoy1880
Cantonese1883
Yunnanese1927
Tonkinese1934
Gan1943
Szechuanese1947
Hunanese1948
Min1948
Yüeh1954
Teochew1962
Shanghainese1964
Sze Yap1964
Wu1964
1908 M. Kennelly tr. Richard Comprehensive Geogr. Chinese Empire v. 348 The Ngeu..or Wu Dialects, comprising: 1—The Wênchow dialect. 2—The Ningpo dialect. 3—The Sungkiang or Shanghai dialect.
1943 China Handbk. i. 30 The Wu group is spoken south of the Yangtze in Kiangsu... It is characterized by the preservation of the ancient voiced stops as aspirated voiced consonants.
1948 R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. xi. 224 The Wu language has in modern times a greater than average hostility to final consonants... Where palatalisation occurs in Wu before a..we regularly find the occlusive beside the fricative.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 146 There are six major dialects in modern China: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, North Min, South Min and Hakka.
1977 ‘S. Leys’ Chinese Shadows (1978) ii. 95 The gracious Wu dialect used in south Kiansu and north Chekiang.
1978 Whitaker's Almanack 838/1 The Chinese language has many dialects, Cantonese, Hakka,..Wu (Shanghai) and the northern dialect.
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