Wuhan dialect

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Wuhan dialect
武汉话
Native toChina
RegionWuhan, Hubei
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
cmn-xwu
GlottologNone

The Wuhan dialect (

Southwest Mandarin spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei, China. The Wuhan dialect has limited mutual intelligibility with Standard Chinese. Grammatically, it has been observed to have a similar aspect system to Xiang Chinese.[1]

Phonology

Tones

Like other Southwest Mandarin varieties, there are four tones. Words with the checked tone in Middle Chinese became the light level tone.

  • Dark level 55 (also 44)
  • Light level 312
  • Rising 42
  • Falling 35
  • Neutral
Middle Chinese tone class Wuhan Example
Dark level
 āōēīūǖ 拉 (la55)
Light level ǎǒěǐǔǚ 爸 (pa213)
Rising tone
 àòèìùǜ 走 (zou42)
falling tone
 áóéíúǘ 叫 (tɕiau35)
neutral tone
 .

Media use

Wuhan dialect is used in the 2021 film

Standard Mandarin.[2]

References

  1. hdl:10722/211145.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024 (link
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  2. ^ "Light in the early, dark days of the pandemic". global.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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