Suzhou dialect

Suzhou dialect (蘇州話 / 苏州话; pinyin: sū zhōu huà) is a dialect of Wu, one of the subdivisions of Chinese spoken language. It is spoken in the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province of China.

It is typical of the Wu dialects, being rich in vowels and conservative in having many initials, and has many similarities with the Shanghai dialect.

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Phonology

Initials

  Labials Dentals Silibants Palatals Velars Laryngeals
Unvoiced Unaspirated Stops ()
Unvoiced Aspirated Stops  
Voiced Stops b d    
Nasals    
Unvoiced Fricatives    
Voiced Fricatives      
Liquids          

Suzhou dialect has a set of voiced initials and exhibits unvoiced unaspirated and aspirated stops, there are unvoiced and voiced fricatives sets. Moreover, palatized initials also feature.

Rimes

 
Vowels Diphthongs Tripthongs Nasals Glottals
       
       
       
   
 
       
     
         
   
   
       
         
       
     
       
   

Suzhou has one tripthong rime, [ ]. Unlike Shanghai, it has no nasalised rimes, although it does have a set of rimes which end in a nasal stop. Middle Chinese ru tone characters which end in [ -p -t -k ] end as a glottal stop [ - ] in Suzhou. Middle Chinese nasal endings [ -m ] have merged with rimes which end with [ -n ] in Suzhou. Middle Chinese [ - ] ending rimes have split into two types in Suzhou. Those which have a high fronted main vowel merge with [ -n ] ending rimes. Those which possess a palatising medial [ -i- ] and back main vowel, retain the [ - ] ending.

Tones

Yin Ping Yang Ping Yin Shang Yin Qu Yang Qu Yin Ru Yang Ru
陰平 陽平 陰上 陰去 陽去 陰入 陽入
44 24 52 412 31 4 23

In Suzhou, part of the Middle Chinese Shang tone characters has merged with the modern yin qu tone.

Romanization

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