Wu kineski

Wu kineski (wu; ISO 639-3: wuu Arhivirano 2008-12-17 na Wayback Machine-u), jedan od 13 sinitičkih ili kineskih jezika, odnosno makrokineskog jezika, kojim govori 77.201.820 Wu Kineza, koji čine dio nacionalnosti Han. Wu kineski raširen je južno od rijeke Changjiang i to istočno od Zhenjianga, na otoku Chongming i ušću Changjianga. Sjeverno od rijeke u okolici Nantonga, Haimena, Qidonga i Qingjianga. Govori se i u provinciji Zhejiang južno do Quzhoua, Jinhua i Wenzhoua; 1.820 u SAD-u.

Postoji više dijalekata: taihu (s pod-dijalektima piling, su-hu-jia, tiaoxi, hangzhou, lin-shao, yongjiang), jinhua (kinhwa), taizhou, oujiang, wuzhou, chuqu (pod-dijalekti chuzhou, longqu), xuanzhou (s tongjing, taigao, shiling), šangajski.

Šangajsko narječje je najvažnija inačica wu jezika kojemu je Šangaj glavno središte.

Literatura

• Globalization, National Culture and the Search for Identity Arhivirano 2010-12-10 na Wayback Machine-u
• Modernisation a Threat to Dialects in China Arhivirano 2016-03-04 na Wayback Machine-u – An excellent article originally from Straits Times Interactive through YTL Community website
• Middlebury Expands Study Abroad Horizons Arhivirano 2005-03-09 na Wayback Machine-u
• Mind your language (from The Standard, Hong Kong) – This newspaper article provides a deep insight on the danger of decline in the usage of dialects
• China: Dialect use on TV worries Beijing (originally from Straits Times Interactive, Singapore and posted on AsiaMedia Media News Daily from UCLA) Arhivirano 2014-03-07 na Wayback Machine-u – Article on the use of dialects other than standard Mandarin in China where strict media censorship is high.
• Standard or Local Chinese – TV Programs in Dialect (from Radio86.co.uk) Arhivirano 2007-06-03 na Wayback Machine-u – Another article on the use of dialects other than standard Mandarin in China.

• Zhao Yuanren [Zhào Yuánrèn 赵元任]: Contrastive aspects of the Wu dialects. In: Language 43:1 (1967), S. 92-101.
• Jerry Norman: Chinese (Cambridge, 1988). Enthält einen Überblick über die chinesischen Dialekte.
• Zhào Yuánrèn 赵元任: Xiàndài Wúyǔ de yánjiū 《现代吴语的研究》 (Studien über die modernen Wu-Dialekte, 1928).
• Qián Nǎiróng 钱乃荣: Dāngdài Wúyǔ yánjiū 《当代吴语研究》 (Studien über die Wu-Dialekte der Gegenwart, 1992).

Vanjske veze

• Ethnologue (14th)
• Ethnologue (15th)

Resursi na Wu dijalektu

• glossika.com
  • Classification of Wu Dialects – By James Campbell
  • Tones in Wu Dialects – Compiled by James Campbell
• Wu Chinese Online Association (pojednostavljeni kineski: 吴语协会) - A website aimed at modernization of Wu Chinese, including basics of Wu, Wu romanization scheme, pronunciation dictionaries of different dialects, Wu input method development, Wu research literatures, written Wu experiment, Wu orthography, a discussion forum etc.
• “The elegant language in Jiangnan area” (pojednostavljeni kineski: 江南雅音话吴语)
• Tatoeba Project Tatoeba.org - Examples sentences in Shanghainese dialect, and in Suzhouan dialect.