Huzhou dialect

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]

Huzhou dialect
湖州閒話, wu-cieu-ghe-o
Native toPeople's Republic of China
RegionHuzhou, Zhejiang, China
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-1zh
ISO 639-2chi (B)
zho (T)
ISO 639-3wuu

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

Compare to other subdialects of Northern Wu, a feature to distinct 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 compensatory.

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Grammar

Pronouns
Singular Plural
1st person 我 伢
ng3 nga3
2nd person 你/爾 倷
n5 na5
3rd person 渠 伽
ji2 jia2

See also

吳語學堂(in Mandarin and Wu) : A phonetic search website for Wu language, its included location and dialect include Huzhou.

References
  1. 湖州市志 (in Chinese). p. 325. {{cite book}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  2. "Humanities digital maps of Zhejiang /Huzhou dialect" 浙江人文數字地圖/湖州话 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  3. "字音>多地綜合查詢". 吳語學堂.
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