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Hui, or Hui-yu (Simplified Chinese: 徽语; Traditional Chinese: 徽語; Hanyu Pinyin: Huīyǔ), or Huizhou-hua (Simplified Chinese: 徽州话; Traditional Chinese: 徽州話; Hanyu Pinyin: Huīzhōuhuà), is a subdivision of Chinese spoken language|spoken Chinese. Its exact status is greatly disputed among linguists. Some prefer to classify it under Wu (linguistics)|Wu, others prefer to classify it under Gan (linguistics)|Gan, still others set it apart as an independent branch. Hui is spoken over a small area compared to other Chinese varieties: about ten or so mountainous county of China|counties in southern Anhui, plus a few more in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Despite its small size, Hui displays a very high degree of internal variation. Nearly every county has its own distinct dialect unintelligible to a speaker a few counties away. It is for this reason that bilingualism and multilingualism are common among speakers of Hui. Like all other varieties of Chinese language|Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Hui is a language or a dialect. See Chinese_language#Is_Chinese_a_Language_or_a_Family_of_Languages?|here for the issues surrounding this dispute. language|name=Hui|nativename=徽语 |familycolor=tomato |states=China |region=southern Anhui, neighbouring portions of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, about 12 counties in total |speakers=3.2 million|rank=Not in top 100 |family=Sino-Tibetan Chinese language|Chinese Hui |nation=- |agency=- |iso1=zh|iso2=chi (B) / zho (T)|sil=CZH Hui can be divided into five dialects:
Phonologically speaking, Hui is noted for its massive loss of coda (linguistics)|codas, including -i, -u, and nasal consonant|nasals
Many dialects of Hui have diphthongs with a high vowel|higher, lengthened first part. For example, 話 "speech" is /uːɜ/ in Xiuning County (Putonghua /xuɑ/), 園 "yard" is /yːɛ/ in Xiuning County (Putonghua /yɛn/); 結 "knot" is /tɕiːaʔ/ in Yi County, Anhui|Yi County (Putonghua / tɕiɛ/), 約 "agreement" is /iːuʔ/ in Yi County, Anhui|Yi County (Putonghua /yɛ/). A few areas take this to extremes. For example, Likou in Qimen County has /fũːmɛ̃/ for 飯 "rice" (Putonghua /fan/), with the /m/ appearing directly as a result of the lengthened, nasalization|nasalized /ũː/. Because nasal consonant|nasal coda (linguistics)|codas have mostly dropped off, Hui reuses the /-n/ ending as a diminutive. For example, in the Tunxi dialect, there is 索 "rope" /soːn/ < /soʔ/ + /-n/. Chinese language Category:Chinese language This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hui (linguistics)".
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