Huzhou dialect
| Huzhou dialect | |
|---|---|
| 湖州閒話, wu-cieu-ghe-o | |
| Native to | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Huzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | zh |
| ISO 639-2 | chi (B) zho (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | wuu |
The Huzhou dialect (simplified Chinese: 湖州话; traditional Chinese: 湖州話; pinyin: Húzhōuhuà; Wu: wu-cieu ghe-o 湖州閒話) is a dialect of the Wu language spoken in the city of Huzhou in Zhejiang province, China.[1]
Distribution
Huzhou dialect is spoken in Wuxing (吳興) and Nanxun (南潯), the two districts that used to make up the Wuxing county (吳興郡).[2]
Huzhou dialect is very close to Changxing (長興) dialect, Deqing (德清) dialect, Wukang (武康) dialect, Anji (安吉), Xiaofeng (孝豐) and Yuhang (餘杭), which are also part of the subbranch Tiao-xi (苕溪) of Taihu Wu. Huzhou dialect is mutually intelligible with most dialects of the northern Wu (Taihu Wu).
Phonology
Vowel
Compared to other subdialects of Northern Wu, a feature to distinguish Huzhou urban dialect and those is it lost the roundness of all front rounded vowels including /y/ (romanized as <iu>) and /ø/ (<oe>), namely turned into unrounded /i/<i> and /e̞/<e>, the two rounded vowels are quite common in other Northern Wu.
Therefore, the phonetic value of two diphthongs /iʉ/<ieu> has a tendency to approach /y/ as compensation.[3]
Grammar
Pronouns
Singular Plural 1st person 我 伢 ng3 nga3 2nd person 你/爾 倷 n5 na5 3rd person 渠 伽 ji2 jia2
References
- ↑ 湖州市地方志编纂委员会办公室. 湖州市志 (in Chinese). p. 325.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ "Humanities digital maps of Zhejiang /Huzhou dialect" 浙江人文數字地圖/湖州话 (in 中文). Archived from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ "字音>多地綜合查詢". 吳語學堂.
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