Huizhou Chinese

Huizhou
徽州話 / 徽州话
Native to	China
Region	Huizhou, southern Anhui, neighbouring portions of Zhejiang and Jiangxi
Native speakers	5.4 million (2021)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Huizhou
Language codes
ISO 639-3	czh
Glottolog	huiz1242
Linguasphere	79-AAA-da
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Huizhou Chinese (Chinese: 徽州话), or the Hui dialect (Chinese: 徽语), is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken over a small area in and around the historical region of Huizhou (for which it is named), in about ten or so mountainous counties in southern Anhui, plus a few more in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Although the Hui area is small compared with other Chinese dialect groups, it displays a very high degree of internal variation. Nearly every county has its own distinct dialect unintelligible to a speaker from a few counties away. For this reason, bilingualism and multilingualism are common among speakers of Hui. It is estimated that there are around 4.6 million speakers of Huizhou varieties.^{[citation needed]}