Huizhou | |
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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] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | czh |
Glottolog | huiz1242 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-da |
Huizhou Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 徽州话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 徽州話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Huīzhōuhuà | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 徽语 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 徽語 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Huīyǔ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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