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Jinhua dialect | |
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金华话 金華話 | |
Pronunciation | [tɕiŋ˧uɑ˥uɑ˩˦] |
Region | Jindong District and the east of Wucheng District, Jinhua Zhejiang |
Ethnicity | Han, She |
Native speakers | 730,000 (2016) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | zh |
ISO 639-2 | chi (B) zho (T) |
ISO 639-3 | wuu |
ISO 639-6 | jiua |
Glottolog | jinh1238 |
The Jinhua dialect (Chinese: 金华话/金華話; pinyin: Jīnhuáhuà, Urban-Centre Jinhua dialect IPA: /tɕiŋ334-33 uɑ313-45 uɑ14/) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Jinhua, China and the surrounding region in central Zhejiang province.[1] With its largest community of speakers in the eastern Wucheng and Jindong districts of the city, the Jinhua dialect branch has been classified as part of the Wuzhou subfamily[2] of Wu, or as part of the proposed Jinqu subfamily of Wu.[3]