Wenzhounese is the variety of Wu Chinese spoken in and around Wenzhou, a port city in Zhejiang province on China's east coast. It has a reputation as one of the hardest Chinese varieties for outsiders to follow: Wenzhounese is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, with Cantonese, or even with the Wu spoken in nearby Shanghai. Like other Chinese varieties it is tonal and shares the written Chinese character system, but its pronunciation preserves features lost elsewhere, which makes it of particular interest to historical linguists. Speaker numbers are usually put in the millions across the Wenzhou region. Heavy emigration from Wenzhou over the past century has created large Wenzhounese-speaking communities in Europe, notably in Italy, France and Spain, as well as in the UK.
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