Wu is a major group of Chinese languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, an area that makes up the Wu cultural region.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2021 native-speaker estimate from the article infobox. StatusWikipedia article on Wu Chinese: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionShanghai, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, parts of Anhui and Jiangxi; overseas and migrant communities 2 Classification
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Wu Chinese is written with Chinese characters (Han script) when written at all, most often through Standard Written Chinese.
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1. Glottolog: Wu Chinese (Glottolog languoid wuch1236)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Wu Chinese
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Wu is a major group of Chinese languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, which make up the Wu cultural region.
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2021
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Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, parts of Anhui and Jiangxi; overseas and migrant communities
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