Jinhua dialect

The Jinhua dialect (Chinese: 金华话/金華話; pinyin: Jīnhuáhuà, Urban-Centre Jinhua dialect IPA: /tɕiŋ^334-33 uɑ^313-45 uɑ¹⁴/) is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Jinhua, China and the surrounding region in central Zhejiang province.^[1] With its largest community of speakers in the eastern Wucheng and Jindong districts of the city, the Jinhua dialect branch has been classified as part of the Wuzhou subfamily^[2] of Wu, or as part of the proposed Jinqu subfamily of Wu.^[3]

Jinhua dialect
金华话 金華話
Pronunciation	[tɕiŋ˧uɑ˥uɑ˩˦]
Region	Jindong District and the east of Wucheng District, Jinhua Zhejiang
Ethnicity	Han, She
Native speakers	730,000 (2016)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Wu Wuzhou Jinhua dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-1	zh
ISO 639-2	chi (B) zho (T)
ISO 639-3	wuu
ISO 639-6	jiua
Glottolog	jinh1238
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