Taizhou Wu

The Taizhou Wu (台州片) is a Southern Wu Chinese language spoken in and around Taizhou in Zhejiang province. It is to some extent mutually intelligible with Taihu Wu.

Taizhou Wu
Native to	People's Republic of China
Region	Zhejiang
Speakers	6.25 million (2012)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Wu Taizhou Wu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
ISO 639-6	tihu
Glottolog	taiz1238
Linguasphere	79-AAA-dg (incl. 79-AAA-dgi Taizhou "proper")

Dialects

Taizhou proper is the chief and representative dialect.

• Taizhou dialect
• Linhai dialect
• Sanmen dialect
• Tiantai dialect
• Xianju dialect
• Huangyan dialect (黃巖話/黄岩话 [wɔ̤ɲjɛ̤̃wa̤])
• Jiaojiang dialect
• Wenling dialect
• Yuhuan dialect
• Yueqing dialect
• Ninghai dialect

Further reading

• van de Weijer, Jeroen & Sloos, Marjoleine & Ran, Yunyun (2021). "Huangyan Taizhou". Illustrations of the IPA. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–15. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000189{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link), with supplementary sound recordings.

• Li, Rong (2012), 中國語言地圖集 [Language Atlas of China] (in Chinese) (2 ed.), The Commercial Press, ISBN 978-7-100-07054-6.