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Xishui
Dialect (浠水)
ABOUT ME AND THE LANGUAGE
Hello,
my name
is Juan (Julie) Wang, and I’m a Ph.D student in Linguistics. I
come from Wuhan
city, the central part of China and I’m a speaker of Xishui
Dialect.
Xishui
dialect
is mainly spoken by people in Xishui county,
which is located in the
east of
Wuhan city. It has been classified as Jianghuai
Mandarin, a sub-dialect of the Northern Dialect of Chinese.
Dialects spoken
by people in the areas along the Yang-tze River in Anhui Province and
Jiangxi
Province, and areas in most Northern parts adjacent to the Yang-tze
River in
Jiangsu Province and the lower parts in Nanjing city are regarded as Jianghuai Mandarin.
Click here
to see a map of those areas where Jianghuai
Mandarin are spoken.
| Your first name | Juan |
| Your last name | Wang |
| Contact Email | juanwang@hawaii.edu |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Xishui Dialect |
| Alternative names | |
| Language classification | Sino-Tibetan -- Sinitic -- Chinese -- Mandarin -- Northern Dialect |
| Geographical areas where spoken | Xishui county, Hubei province |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Mandarin |
| Official language(s) in your country | Mandarin |
| Language(s) used at school as a child | Mandarin |
| Language(s) used by teachers today | Mandarin |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language | No. |
| If the answer to the above question is yes, please specify | |
| Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? | Standard Chinese characters |
| What type of orthography you use? | Logographic |
| NUMBERS | |
| one | yi |
| two | er |
| three | san |
| four | si |
| five | wu |
| six | lou |
| seven | qi |
| eight | ba |
| nine | jiu |
| ten | shi |