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'Wenzhou dialect' () is a dialect of the Wu language family, which in turn constitutes one of the Sinitic language families. It is spoken in Wenzhou in the Zhejiang province.

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Classification

Geographic distribution

Dialects

References

Classification

Geographic distribution

Dialects

==Phonetics and phonology

=Consonants===

Consonants of Wenzhou dialect

		bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	alveolo-palatal	palatal	velar	glottal
nasal
plosives	voiced
	voiceless unaspirated
	voiceless aspirated
fricatives	voiced
	voiceless
affricates	voiced
	voiceless unaspirated
	voiceless aspirated
approximants
lateral approximants

===Vowels

Monophthongs

Diphthongs

Triphthongs

Syllable structure

Onsets

Rimes

Tones

Citation tones

Tone chart of Wenzhou dialect

Tone number	Tone name	Tone contour
1	yin ping (陰平)	44
2	yang ping (陽平)	31
3	yin shang (陰上)	45
4	yang shang (陽上)	34
5	yin qu (陰去)	42
6	yang qu (陽去)	22
7	yin ru (陰入)	323
8	yang ru (陽入)	212

Tone sandhi

==Grammar

=Morphology

Syntax=

Vocabulary

History

Examples

See also==

★ List of Chinese dialects

★ Wu (linguistics)

★ Suzhou dialect

★ Shanghai dialect

★ Hangzhou dialect

References

★ Qián,nǎiróng (1992). ''Dāngdài Wúyǔ yánjiū''. (Contemporary Wu linguistics studies). Shànghǎi: shànghǎi jiāoyù chūbǎnshè. (錢乃榮. 1992. 當代吳語研究. 上海敎育出版社) ISBN 7532023559