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Changzhou dialect

NameChangzhou dialect
Nativename 
StatesPeople's Republic of China
RegionChangzhou
Speakers3.5 million
FamilycolorSino-Tibetan
Pronunciation-wuusɑŋ.z̥ei.wu
Fam2Chinese
Fam3Wu
Fam4Taihu
Fam5Piling
Linglistwuu-pil
NoticeIPA

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Changzhou dialect (Simplified Chinese: 常州话; Traditional Chinese: 常州話; Pinyin: Chángzhōu huà) is a dialect of Wu, a Sino-Tibetan language, and belongs to the Taihu dialect group. It is spoken in the city of Changzhou and surrounding areas in Jiangsu province of China. It has many similarities with the Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect, but is largely not comprehensible between the speakers. It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language. It is much more closely related to the neighboring Wuxi dialect with which it is mostly mutually intelligible.

Phonetically, the Changzhou dialect makes use of a number of voiced or slack voiced initials [b̥ d̥ ɡ̊ v̥ z̥ d̥z̥ d̥ʑ̊] that not found in Mandarin as well as a larger number of vowel sounds [ɑ ɐ ɔ o æ ə ɨ ɨʷ ɛ ɤɯ e i u y]. The tone system also is of greater complexity, using 7 tones based on the classical tonal system. It also has a more complex tone sandhi than found in modern Chinese.

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6.42 min. | 0 user rating		 Jiashan (åå) is a county (åå縣) not far from Jiaxing city in Zhejiang province. It is 80 kilometers west of Shanghai, 95 kilometers east of Hangzhou, and 90 kilometers south of Suzhou. They speak the same variety of Wu Chinese that is typical of Suzhou and Shanghai, and is quite close to Jiaxing dialect and the Pinghu dialect. This is the sixth part in a 12-part series. Part 1 - youtu.be Part 2 - youtu.be Part 3 - youtu.be Part 4 - youtu.be Part 5 - youtu.be Part 6 - youtu.be Part 7 - youtu.be Part 8 - youtu.be Part 9 - youtu.be
28.97 min. | 0 user rating		 Jiashan (åå) is a county (åå縣) not far from Jiaxing city in Zhejiang province. It is 80 kilometers west of Shanghai, 95 kilometers east of Hangzhou, and 90 kilometers south of Suzhou. They speak the same variety of Wu Chinese that is typical of Suzhou and Shanghai, and is quite close to Jiaxing dialect and the Pinghu dialect. This is the fifth part in a 12-part series. Part 1 - youtu.be Part 2 - youtu.be Part 3 - youtu.be Part 4 - youtu.be Part 5 - youtu.be Part 6 - youtu.be Part 7 - youtu.be Part 8 - youtu.be Part 9 - youtu.be Part 10 - youtu.be
32.23 min. | 0 user rating		 Jiashan (åå) is a county (åå縣) not far from Jiaxing city in Zhejiang province. It is 80 kilometers west of Shanghai, 95 kilometers east of Hangzhou, and 90 kilometers south of Suzhou. They speak the same variety of Wu Chinese that is typical of Suzhou and Shanghai, and is quite close to Jiaxing dialect and the Pinghu dialect. This is the seventh part in a 12-part series. Part 1 - youtu.be Part 2 - youtu.be Part 3 - youtu.be Part 4 - youtu.be Part 5 - youtu.be Part 6 - youtu.be Part 7 - youtu.be Part 8 - youtu.be Part 9 - youtu.be Part 10 - youtu.be
28.78 min. | 0 user rating		 Jiashan (åå) is a county (åå縣) not far from Jiaxing city in Zhejiang province. It is 80 kilometers west of Shanghai, 95 kilometers east of Hangzhou, and 90 kilometers south of Suzhou. They speak the same variety of Wu Chinese that is typical of Suzhou and Shanghai, and is quite close to Jiaxing dialect and the Pinghu dialect. This is the tenth part in a 12-part series. Part 1 - youtu.be Part 2 - youtu.be Part 3 - youtu.be Part 4 - youtu.be Part 5 - youtu.be Part 6 - youtu.be Part 7 - youtu.be Part 8 - youtu.be Part 9 - youtu.be Part 10 - youtu.be Part 11 - youtu.be Part 12 - youtu.be
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Initials :
Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
aspirated pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ
slack voice b̥ d̥ c ɡ̊
Affricate voiceless ts
aspirated tsʰ
slack voice d̥z̥ d̥ʑ̊
Fricative voiceless f s ɕ* h
slack voice v̥ z̥
Approximant l ʎ ʟ ɦ

Finals :
open -i -u nasal -ng -r
zero
-ʌ -ɔ -ɛ -æe -ei -ɯu -ɤɯ -æ̃ -õ -ʌŋ -ɛŋ -oŋ -ɚ
i-
-iʌ -iɔ -iɛ -iɯu -iɤɯ -ĩ -iõ -iʌŋ -iŋ -ioŋ
u-
-uʌ -uɔ -uɛ -uæe -uæ̃ -uõ -uʌŋ -uɛŋ
ü-
-yɛ -yiŋ

Tone chart of Changzhou dialect
Tones :
Number Tone name Tone contour Notes
1 陰平 yīn píng ˦ (44) mid-high
2 陽平 yáng píng ˩˧ (13) rising
3 上 shàng ˥ (55) high
4 陰去 yīn qù ˥˨˧ (523) dipping
5 陽去 yáng qù ˨˦ (24) mid-rising
6 陰入 yīn rù ˥ʔ (5) high entering
7 陽入 yáng rù ˨˧ʔ (23) rising entering, shorter than most other tones

Tone sandhi for Changzhou dialect
: Tone sandhi
1st 3rd 4th 6th 2nd 5th 7th
first 33:33 55:32 55:32 55:3 33:33 55:32 55:3
third 53:22 53:22 53:22 53:2 53:22 53:22 53:2
fourth 55:55 53:22 55:55 55:5 55:55 55:55 55:5
sixth 5:55 5:55 5:42 5:5 5:55 5:42 5:5
second 11:33 11:55 11:33 11:5 11:33 11:33 1:3
fifth 32:23 32:23 35:32 32:23 32:13 35:32 32:23
seventh 23:33 23:33 23:42 23:3 23:33 23:32 23:3

: Tone sandhi
Translation IPA Chinese character
Changzhou [sɑŋ.z̥ei]  
Changzhou dialect [sɑŋ.z̥ei.wu]  
I [ŋʌɯ]  
You [ɲʒɛə]  
Have you eaten? [tɕɛ.vɛi.vʌn]   

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