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New Style Hangzhou Dialect Absorbs Phonological Components of Neighboring Wu Dialects

Xu Yu

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Hangzhou dialect is a Wu dialect with Mandarin components used by a small population with limited areal distribution.More and more phonological components of the neighboring Wu dialects are wholly or partly borrowed into new style Hangzhou dialect,due to increasingly closer contact.

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Hangzhou dialect is a Wu dialect with Mandarin components used by a small population with limited areal distribution.More and more phonological components of the neighboring Wu dialects are wholly or partly borrowed into new style Hangzhou dialect,due to increasingly closer contact.

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Hangzhou dialect is a Wu dialect with Mandarin components used by a small population with limited areal distribution.More and more phonological components of the neighboring Wu dialects are wholly or partly borrowed into new style Hangzhou dialect,due to increasingly closer contact.

Key concepts: Mandarin Chinese, Linguistics, Style (visual arts), Population, Geography, Phonology, History, Sociology

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