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Wu Dictionary



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Wú吳語
Dictionary

• Wugniu: dictionary of Wu dialects from Suzhou, Wuxi, Yixing, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Haining Xiashi, Ningbo, Yongjia


• Say it right: a quick guide to Mandarin, Cantonese & Shanghainese, by (2004) online

• Chinese-English dictionary of the Wu dialect, featuring the dialect of the city of Shanghai, edited by Thomas Creamer (1991) online


• The lexicon of the Suzhou dialect in 19th century novel Sing-song girls of Shanghai, par Giorgio Casacchia, in Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale (1984) : I & II - III

Language

→ Wu keyboard: to type Wu Chinese characters from Latin script


• Two general classifiers in the Shangai Wu dialect: a comparison with Mandarin and Cantonese, by Mary Erbaugh & Bei Yang, in Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale (2006)

• Quelques caractéristiques phonologiques de la langue wu parlée à Suzhou by Ning Wang, in La Linguistique (2019)

• Linguistic distance between the Wú dialects: is the current classification relevant?, by Miguel Aníbal Bendito Hernández, dissertation (2022)

• High vowel fricativization in Northern Wu Chinese and its neighbors, by Matthew Faytak, in Language Change for the Worse (2024)

• Problematic sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Jinshan: diagnosing dominance, by Phil Rose & Tianle Yang, in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (2024)

Texts & Literature
First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

人人生而自由,拉尊严脱仔权利上一律平等。
伊拉有理性脱仔良心,并应以兄弟关系个精神相对待。


• Universal Declaration of Human Rights 世界人权宣言 translation into Wu

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