Wuhan dialect

{{Short description|Dialect of Chinese language}}

{{Expand Chinese|武漢話|date=December 2016}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Wuhan dialect

| nativename = 武汉话

| pronunciation = {{IPA|[u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵]}}

| states = China

| region = Wuhan, Hubei

| speakers =

| ref = {{cn|date=July 2013}}

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Chinese

| fam3 = Mandarin

| fam4 = Southwestern

| fam5 = Wu-Tian

| isoexception = dialect

| linglist = cmn-xwu

| glotto = none

| map =

| mapcaption =

| iso6 = xghu

}}

The Wuhan dialect ({{zh|s={{linktext|武|汉|话}}|t={{linktext|武|漢|話}}}}, {{IPA|cmn|u⁴²xan¹³xua³⁵|local}}; {{zh|p=Wǔhànhuà}}), also known as the Hankou dialect after the former town of Hankou, belongs to the Wu–Tian branch of Southwest Mandarin spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei, China. The Wuhan dialect has limited mutual intelligibility with Standard Chinese. Grammatically, it has been observed to have a similar aspect system to Xiang Chinese.{{Cite thesis |last=Zhang |first=Shiliang |title=The Wuhan Dialect: A Hybrid Southwestern Mandarin Variety of Sinitic |date=2015 |degree=MA |publisher=The University of Hong Kong |doi=10.5353/th_b5481914 |doi-access=free |hdl=10722/211145 |hdl-access=free}}