Is the dialect spoken by us Shanghainese a kind of Wu dialect?

Shanghai dialect is a Wu dialect, belonging to Sino-Tibetan language family-Chinese language family-Wu language family-Taihu film-Suhujia film.

Shanghai dialect is an important representative of Wu dialect, which can basically communicate with other dialects in Taihu Lake area of Wu dialect and is an influential language in modern Wu dialect area. Shanghai dialect is a new type of urban Wu dialect, which is based on the original local dialect in Shanghai and naturally merged with the immigrant dialects from all parts of Wu dialect area after Shanghai opened to the outside world.

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As a dialect of Wu dialect, Shanghai dialect, like most Wu dialects, has complex tone sandhi. Among Wu dialects, Shanghai dialect evolved to "extended tone sandhi" the fastest. When you say a word, the tone of the first word determines the tone sandhi of other words, but it has nothing to do with the tone of the next word.

There are five rules for disyllabic tone sandhi:

1, flat tone is followed by any tone, and the two tones become 55+2 1 respectively. Such as "doctor" and "organ"

2. The tone of the two words becomes 33+44 after the tone is voiced. Such as "vest" and "advertisement", but there are exceptions, followed by yin and yang. For example, the tone of cursive paper is pronounced as 55+ 1 1.

3. After removing the Yang tone, the tone of these two words becomes 22+44. Such as "old wine".

4. The tone of two words becomes 33+44 after any tone is followed by a yin tone. Such as "Zhejiang".

5. Any tone is followed by a positive tone, and the two-character tone becomes 1 1+23. Such as "bees".