| Tiantai Dialect | |
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| 天台話 / 天台话 | |
| Pronunciation | Tiantai Dialect: [tʰi.tʰai.u] |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
The Tiantai dialect, also known as Tiantaihua (simplified Chinese: 天台话; traditional Chinese: 天台話; pinyin: Tiāntāihuà; Tiantai dialect pronunciation: [tʰi.tʰai.u]) is a regiolect of Wu Chinese in the Taizhou Wu dialect group. It is spoken in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China.
Like other dialects in the Wu family, Tiantaihua has a three-way contrast between voiced, unaspirated voiceless, and aspirated initial consonants (e.g., /t tʰ d/), preserving an earlier feature of Chinese which Mandarin has collapsed into a two-way distinction.
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| Traditional Chinese | 天台話 | ||||||||||||||
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The Tiantai dialect is the main representative of the northern Taizhou dialect family.