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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.^{[citation needed][dubious – discuss][which?]}

Taizhou Wu
Native to	People's Republic of China
Region	Zhejiang
Native speakers	(5 million cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 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

References

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.

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