Wuhan dialect

The Wuhan dialect (simplified Chinese: 武汉话; traditional Chinese: 武漢話, local pronunciation: [u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵]; pinyin: Wǔhànhuà), also known as the Hankou dialect after the former town of Hankou, 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 to Xiang Chinese.[1]

Wuhan dialect
武汉话
Native toChina
RegionWuhan, Hubei
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
cmn-xwu
GlottologNone

Phonology

Tones

Like other Southwest Mandarin varieties, there are four tones. Words with the checked tone in Middle Chinese became the light level tone.

  • Dark level 55 (also 44)
  • Light level 312
  • Rising 42
  • Falling 35
  • Neutral
Middle Chinese tone class Wuhan Example
Dark level
 āōēīūǖ 拉 (la55)
Light level ǎǒěǐǔǚ 爸 (pa213)
Rising tone àòèìùǜ 走 (zou42)
falling tone áóéíúǘ 叫 (tɕiau35)
neutral tone .

Media use

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]

References
  1. Zhang, Shiliang (2015). The Wuhan Dialect: A Hybrid Southwestern Mandarin Variety of Sinitic (MA thesis). The University of Hong Kong. doi:10.5353/th_b5481914. hdl:10722/211145.
  2. "Light in the early, dark days of the pandemic". global.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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