Discussions on Wu Chinese.
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Scott
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by Scott » Thu Nov 01, 2001 7:42 pm
Hello,
Can anyone explain to me what Shanghainese is? I haven't seen anything about this, except on the internet.

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Lisa c
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by Lisa c » Mon Nov 05, 2001 4:54 pm
It's the dialect of Chinese spoken in Shanghai.
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lisa c
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by lisa c » Mon Nov 05, 2001 4:58 pm
It's the dialect of Chinese spoken in Shanghai.
The Mandarin that most people are familiar with is the dialect spoken in Beijing and is the standard taught in schools in China. Taiwan also speaks Mandarin but it is different from the Beijing standard probably due to the influence of the Fukian/Hokkien speaking population.
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Chinese
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by Chinese » Tue Nov 20, 2001 4:49 am
sometimes it refers to the people who resides in Shanghai
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Jimmy Hsu
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by Jimmy Hsu » Sat Jan 05, 2002 1:46 am
: Hello,
: Can anyone explain to me what Shanghainese is? I haven't seen anything about this, except on the internet.
: :)Go to the following site for an excellent introduction to Shanghainese:
http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghainese/shanghainese.cfm
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Luke
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by Luke » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:18 am
Also, I think...this is just a guess...but every city has their like own little language, like just a few different words...like slang words..
for example australia has g'day and america might have yo...2 different words but the same meaning.
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Dylan Sung
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by Dylan Sung » Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:04 am
"Luke" wrote:Also, I think...this is just a guess...but every city has their like own little language, like just a few different words...like slang words..
In China, the geographical distances may be great between one area and another. In effect, each major city is kinda like an island, and the language spoken in that area develops over time and becomes distinctly different from that in their neighbouring cities before the advent of tv and radio. Now mass media and education has brought Mandarin in as the national Chinese spoken common language. The localised speech of each city can be called individual dialects if they are different from neighbouring city dialects.
Dyl.
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Aurelio
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by Aurelio » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:50 pm
Nong ho!
Well, I guess most people on the chineselanguages forum will already know this, but since Luke brought up his guess I feel 'obliged' to give an example:
Ru zoh nong sinni kualoh!
would be
Wo zhu ni xinnian kuaile
in Mandarin. Clearly not just an issue of a few slang words, it's a completely different (though related) language (Wu-language or Wu-dialect).
Regards,
Aurelio
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Mark Yong
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by Mark Yong » Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:12 am
This is a nice website on the Shanghai dialect that I found recently:
http://www.zanhe.com
It looks as though the website is only partially complete, with development ending around late-2005. Nonetheless, it has quite a nice repository of information on the dialect.
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mavericker
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by mavericker » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:16 pm
Thank you for that link.

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mavericker
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by mavericker » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:17 pm
Mark Yong wrote:This is a nice website on the Shanghai dialect that I found recently:
http://www.zanhe.com
It looks as though the website is only partially complete, with development ending around late-2005. Nonetheless, it has quite a nice repository of information on the dialect.
Thank you for that link. How do I do a search on terms at that site?
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myhealth
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by myhealth » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:21 am
Shanghainese or the Shanghai language is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai and the surrounding region. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Shanghainese, like other Wu dialects, is largely not mutually intelligible with other Chinese varieties such as Mandarin. The term "Shanghainese" in English sometimes refers to all Wu Chinese dialects, though it is only partially intelligible with some other subbranches of the Wu language group.