Wuxi dialect

Wuxi
Wuxi
無錫話
Native to	People's Republic of China
Region	Wuxi, Jiangsu province
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Wu Taihu Su–Jia–Hu Wuxi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	wuu-wux
Glottolog	wuxi1234

The Wuxi dialect (Simplified Chinese: 无锡话; Traditional Chinese: 無錫話; Pinyin: Wúxīhuà, Wu: mu¹ sik¹ wo³, Wuxi dialect: [vu˨˨˧ siɪʔ˦ ɦu˨]) is a dialect of Wu. It is spoken in the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, China.

RegionWuxi, Jiangsu province

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Reading “Lang Tao Sha Ling” by Li Yu in Wuxinese

It has many similarities with Shanghainese and the Suzhou dialect. It is mutually intelligible with the Changzhou dialect to which it is most closely related.^{[citation needed]} It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language.

^[1]		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts	tɕ	k	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tsʰ	tɕʰ	kʰ
	slack voice	b	d	dz	dʑ	g
Fricative	voiceless	f		s	ɕ	x	h
Fricative	slack voice	v					ɦ
Lateral			l

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