The Wuhan dialect (simplified Chinese: 武汉话; traditional Chinese: 武漢話, local pronunciation: [u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵]; pinyin: Wǔhànhuà), also known as the Hankou dialect, belongs to the Wu–Tian branch of Southwest Mandarin spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei, China. The Wuhan dialect has limited mutual intelligibility with Standard Chinese. Grammatically, it has been observed to have a similar aspect system with Xiang Chinese.[1]
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武汉话 | |
Native to | China |
Region | Wuhan, Hubei |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Linguist List | cmn-xwu |
Glottolog | None |
Like other Southwest Mandarin varieties, there are four tones. Words with the checked tone in Middle Chinese became the light level tone.
Middle Chinese tone class | Wuhan | Example |
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Dark level |
āōēīūǖ | 拉 (la55) |
Light level | ǎǒěǐǔǚ | 爸 (pa213) |
Rising tone | àòèìùǜ | 走 (zou42) |
falling tone | áóéíúǘ | 叫 (tɕiau35) |
neutral tone | . | |
Wuhan dialect is used in the 2021 film Embrace Again, which is set in Wuhan. Embrace Again was filmed and released in two versions, one in Wuhan dialect and one in Standard Mandarin.[2]
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