Wenzhounese

E321130

Wenzhounese is a highly distinctive and notoriously difficult-to-understand variety of Wu Chinese spoken in and around Wenzhou in southeastern Zhejiang province.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Wenzhounese canonical 3
Wenzhou dialect 2
温州话 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese topolect ⓘ
Sinitic language variety ⓘ
variety of Wu Chinese ⓘ
altName Wenzhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhounese

Wenzhouhua ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhou
city Wenzhou ⓘ
contrastWith Shanghainese ⓘ
Standard Mandarin ⓘ
linked to: Standard Chinese
country China ⓘ
dialectOf Wu Chinese ⓘ
geographicDistribution Wenzhou metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhou

surrounding counties of Wenzhou ⓘ
hasDialect rural Wenzhounese ⓘ
suburban Wenzhounese ⓘ
urban Wenzhounese ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters ⓘ
rich vowel inventory ⓘ
historicalDevelopment descended from Old Wu ⓘ
ISO639-6Code wzhn ⓘ
languageBranch Sinitic ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
languageGroup Wu ⓘ
linguisticTypology analytic language ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility low with Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
low with most other Wu varieties ⓘ
nativeName 温州话 ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhounese
notableFeature complex tone sandhi ⓘ
conservative phonological features ⓘ
highly distinctive phonology ⓘ
lexical differences from Mandarin ⓘ
syntactic differences from Mandarin ⓘ
notableFor being difficult for Chinese military cryptanalysis during wartime ⓘ
province Zhejiang ⓘ
linked to: Zhejiang Province
region East China ⓘ
linked to: eastern China

southeastern China ⓘ
reputation notoriously difficult to understand for speakers of other Chinese varieties ⓘ
script Han script ⓘ
spokenIn Wenzhou ⓘ
Zhejiang province ⓘ
linked to: Zhejiang Province

southeastern Zhejiang ⓘ
linked to: Zhejiang Province
status regional language variety ⓘ
subclassOf Chinese language ⓘ
Sinitic languages ⓘ
linked to: Chinese language

Wu Chinese ⓘ
tone tonal language ⓘ
usedBy local population of Wenzhou ⓘ
usedIn daily communication in Wenzhou ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
writingSystem Chinese characters ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wu Chinese → hasMajorVariety → Wenzhounese ⓘ
Wu dialects → hasMajorVariety → Wenzhounese ⓘ
Wenzhounese → nativeName → 温州话 ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhounese
Wenzhounese → altName → Wenzhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhounese
Taihu Wu → contrastWith → Wenzhounese ⓘ
Oujiang Wu → hasAlternativeName → Wenzhou dialect ⓘ
linked to: Wenzhounese