'Quzhou Dialect' is a (sub-)dialect of the
Wu dialect/language cluster of the
Sinitic linguistic family, spoken in
Quzhou.
As part of the southern branch of Wu, Quzhouhua is mutually unintelligible with those of the northern Wu branch such as
Suzhouhua and
Shanghaihua. But it is not particularly close to other southern Wu dialects like
Wenzhouhua and
Manjiang.