Where is the dialect of Wu dialect?

Wu dialect is distributed in Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, southern Shanghai, southern Anhui, northeastern Jiangxi and northern Fujian in China, with a population of more than 90 million.

There are tens of thousands of unique words and many characteristic words in Wu dialect, which are vivid manifestations of people's thinking mode, life mood, cultural cultivation, social production, customs and language habits in Jiangnan. Wu dialect retains many words used in ancient Chinese and has high cultural value. The grammatical structure of Wu dialect is quite different from that of Mandarin. Wu dialect is divided into six parts: Taihu Lake, Taizhou, Jinqu, Shangli, Oujiang and Xuanzhou, with the northern Wu dialect being the largest.

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Features of Wu dialect:

1, Wu dialect retains all voiced sounds and flat tones, and some areas retain sharp group sounds and more ancient Chinese words, which has high cultural value and the pronunciation is highly matched with the rhyme of Tang and Song Dynasties.

2. The most important feature of Wu Diyin is that the fully voiced initials in the Middle Ages still retain the fully voiced phonemes. Medieval Chinese characters can be divided into four categories: full turbidity and clear turbidity, secondary turbidity and full turbidity and secondary turbidity. There are no voiced consonants in all Chinese dialects except Wu dialect and Laoxiang dialect, only a few in northern Jiangxi and northern Fujian, and Wu dialect retains all voiced consonants.

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