What is the meaning of "Allah" in Shanghai dialect and why is it synonymous with Shanghai dialect?

"Allah" is what we mean, and it is the dialect of Shanghai natives. Allah "was originally the first person pronoun in Ningbo dialect. Until the 1930s, the first person in Shanghai was not "Allah". After liberation, with the end of the immigration tide, Shanghai dialect in the modern sense gradually took shape. "We are from Shanghai! "At this point," Allah "has completely replaced" I "as the symbol of Shanghainese.

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"Allah" comes from Ningbo dialect of Wu dialect. Taking Ningbo dialect as an example, Ningbo dialect often ends with "la" when expressing many people. For example, "Qula" is what they mean. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, a large number of Ningbo people entered Shanghai, 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, "Ala" rose from the middle and lower classes and became the representative of Shanghai dialect, so that the only Shanghai dialect that many non-Shanghainese knew was "Ala". In addition, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province and Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province also take Allah as the first person.

References:

Allah _ Baidu Encyclopedia