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The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
20 maj 2024 · Wu (Shanghainese): Written in Chinese characters, though less standardized than Mandarin or Cantonese. Min (e.g., Hokkien-Taiwanese) : Written in Traditional Chinese characters, especially in Taiwan and Fujian, though written forms are less standardized.
Shanghainese is a representative dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of Shanghai, China. It is one of the most widely spoken dialects of Wu Chinese and serves as a lingua franca in the Greater Shanghai area .
Shanghainese is a dialect of Wu spoken by about 14 million people in Shanghai. There are also many Shanghainese speakers in Hong Kong. There is no standard written form of Shanghainese and it rarely appears in writing.
11 gru 2023 · Shanghainese is a representative dialect of Northern Wu; it contains vocabulary and expressions from the entire Northern Wu area (southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang). With nearly 14 million speakers, Shanghainese is also the largest single coherent form of Wu Chinese.
Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up ...
Map of Chinese topolects. The population data reflects native speakers, with all data except Cantonese (1999) collected before 1988. Mandarin*: Mandarin contains many regional variants itself (River, Northeastern, Southwestern, Northwestern). The Chinese Common Language (Putonghua) is derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
