Wu Chinese

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wú is one of the major divisions of the Chinese languages. It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces. Major Wu dialects include those of Shanghai, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Yongkang, and Quzhou. The traditional prestige dialect of Wu is the Suzhou dialect, though due to its large population, Shanghainese is today sometimes considered the prestige dialect. Note that Wu is the term used by scholars and an endonym by many of its speakers is 'Jiangnan speech' or 'Jiangsu-Zhejiang speech', or 'Jiangzhe speech'. Another term for Wu Chinese, less used often is 'Wuyue speech', often a reference to the two kingdoms of Wu and Yue, and/or to the kingdom of Wuyue.