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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
Shanghainese is part of the Wu dialects or languages depending on your point of view and the Wu dialects were one of the first groups to branch off from the rest of the Chinese languages. Part of the early split meant that it was able to retain many of the phonetic characteristics and properties that later disappeared from many other Chinese languages/dialects and which explains why Shanghainese sounds distinctive from a lot of other chinese dialects. However, much Shanghainese spoken today has kind of gotten backwashed with standard Mandarin (as have most Chinese languages/dialects) in the last several decades so there's been a bit of a dilution of its distinctiveness. |
sorry, sir. as one whose first language is Wu chinese(吴语), i feel offended that u use the word "dialect".
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