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Wú (traditional Chinese: 吳方言; simplified Chinese: 吴方言; pinyin: Wú fāngyán; also traditional Chinese: 吳語; simplified Chinese: 吴语; pinyin: Wú yǔ “Wu language”) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese languages. It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province, as well as smaller parts of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces. Major Wu dialects include those of Shanghai, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Yongkang, and Quzhou. The traditional prestige dialect of Wu is the Suzhou dialect, though due to its large population, the Shanghai dialect is today sometimes considered the prestige dialect.

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There are at least 77 million speakers of Wu Chinese as of 1991, making it the second Most spoken Chinese language after Mandarin, which has 800 million speakers, and the 10th most spoken language in the world.

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