The Taizhou Wu (台州片) is a Southern

Wu Chinese The Wu languages (; Wu romanization and IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] ( Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Provin ...

language spoken in and around Taizhou in

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...

province. It is to some extent mutually intelligible with Taihu Wu.

Dialects

Taizhou proper is the chief and representative dialect. *

Taizhou dialect The Taizhou dialect (Taizhou dialect: T'e-tsiu wa; ) is a dialect of Wu Chinese. It is spoken in the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang province, China. It is only partially intelligible with Shanghainese The Shanghainese language, also known a ...

*Linhai dialect *Sanmen dialect *Tiantai dialect *Xianju dialect *Huangyan dialect (黃巖話/黄岩话 ) *Jiaojiang dialect *Wenling dialect *Yuhuan dialect *Yueqing dialect *Ninghai dialect

Dialects

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