Speakers of Wu varieties are mostly unaware of this term for their speech, since the term "Wu" is a relatively recent classificatory imposition on what are less clearly defined and highly heterogeneous natural forms. … 查看更多內容

Wu languages are spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the whole municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. Many are located in the lower Yangtze River valley.
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The pronoun systems of many Wu dialects are complex when it comes to personal and demonstrative pronouns. For example, Wu … 查看更多內容

Wu Chinese is the most ancient of the six major southern Chinese varieties, tracing its origin to more than 3,000 years ago, when the Zhou princes Taibo and Zhongyong migrated from the Guanzhong region in modern Shaanxi to the Wuxi–Suzhou area of the 查看更多內容

Wu's place within the greater scope of Sinitic varieties is less easily typified than prototypically northern Chinese such as Mandarin or prototypically southern Chinese such as Cantonese. Its original classification, along with the other Sinitic varieties, was … 查看更多內容

The Wu dialects are notable among Chinese varieties in having kept the "muddy" (voiced; whispery voiced word-initially) 查看更多內容

There are three major schools of romanization of Wu Chinese. 查看更多內容