What is the meaning of Allah in Shanghai dialect?

Shanghai dialect Allah means me and us.

Ala, a Wu vocabulary, is the pronunciation of the first personal pronouns "we" and "mine" in eastern and central Zhejiang. Later, Ningbo people moved to Shanghai and were widely used in Shanghai. The usage is the same as other Wu dialects such as Huzhou dialect and Shaoxing dialect. "Allah" comes from Wu dialect in Ningbo, which means that many people often end with "La", such as "Qula".

In the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of Ningbo people went north to Shanghai to do business, which had a great influence on Shanghai dialect. The local expression of "we" in Shanghai is "sorry", but after a large number of Ningbo people immigrated to Shanghai, "Allah" rose from businessmen and citizens and became the representative of Shanghai dialect. So many non-Shanghainese know that Shanghai dialect is "Allah", and Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province also takes Allah as the first person.

The Development of Shanghai Dialect

Shanghai dialect may be the fastest-growing and most changeable dialect in the last hundred years. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shanghai was only a medium-sized county on the southeast coast, and the Shanghai dialect at that time was very similar to Suzhou dialect. Shanghai Port 1842. With the influx of a large number of migrants, Shanghai has gradually become a mixed immigrant city.

"There is no city without Ningbo", especially among the immigrant groups in Shanghai, Ningbo people are the most. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the number of Ningbo people living in Shanghai had reached 400,000, accounting for about one third of the total number of Shanghai residents at that time. It is said that someone has done statistics. A quarter of Shanghainese are originally from Ningbo, and almost all of them can climb to their relatives in Shanghai in a tortuous way. Such a huge immigrant group will undoubtedly have a great impact on the development of Shanghai. Many words in modern Shanghai dialect are derived from Ningbo dialect.