The Wenglingnese language, casually spoken | Wikitongues

The Wenlingnese language, also called Wenling Hua (温岭话), is a variety of the Taizhou Wu language from Zhejiang Province, China. This video was recorded by Wikitongues community members Jiali Lee and Elliot.
More from Wikipedia: The Wu group (Southern Wu in particular) is well known among linguists and sinologists as being one of the most internally diverse among the Sinitic groups, with very little mutual intelligibility between varieties across subgroups. Among speakers of other Sinitic languages, Wu is often subjectively judged to be soft, light, and flowing. There is an idiom in Mandarin that specifically describes these qualities of Wu speech: 吴侬软语, which literally means "the tender speech of Wu". On the other hand, some Wu varieties like Wenzhounese have gained notoriety for their high incomprehensibility to both Wu and non-Wu speakers alike, so much so that Wenzhounese was used during the Second World War to avoid Japanese interception. Wu dialects are typified linguistically as having preserved the voiced initials of Middle Chinese, having a majority of Middle Chinese tones undergo a register split, and preserving a checked tone typically terminating in a glottal stop, although some dialects maintain the tone without the stop and certain dialects of Southern Wu have undergone or are starting to undergo a process of devoicing. The historical relations which determine Wu classification primarily consist of two main factors: firstly, geography, both in terms of physical geography and distance south or away from Mandarin, that is, Wu varieties are part of a Wu-Min dialect continuum from southern Jiangsu to Fujian and Chaoshan. The second factor is the drawing of historical administrative boundaries, which, in addition to physical barriers, limit mobility and in the majority of cases more or less determine the boundary of a Wu dialect.
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[@onemore5952]

It was fun to listen to. She spoke it with a very sunny disposition and that lifted my mood. 😀

[@christopher9727]

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[@complimentary_voucher]

As a totally non-Mandarin or Cantonese speaker I can still easily hear that this is a distinct language, although I've heard other English speakers say they can't even tell the diff between Japanese and Mandarin. I think personally that is whack because they sound as distinct to me as Russian and French 🤷‍♀

[@RussLynch]

Bold of you to assume the average English speaker could differentiate French from Russian... 😅

[@walruslennon7905]

It’s not distinct, still as a dialect. I speak Ningboese, a dialect just few hundred miles north to Wenling. I can understand 90% of what she is speaking.

[@hodl2123]

I do think it can be considered a different language, but no way it's as different as French and Russian. I am a non native speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese, and i could understand about 30% to 50% of what she said. I think a better comparison would be like Spanish and Portuguese, or Spanish and Italian.

[@christopher9727]

... Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Seek his Holy Spirit for guidance peace and purpose today Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@asolvorrom6648]

Lol it's not a different language for me being a mandarin speaker who had never heard of this dialect before can easily understand most parts. Also on the grammar level it is identical to mandarin Chinese. If you write it down on paper it's still gonna be the same.

[@nicholaschen7378]

I'm not fluent, but I hear some of the words my parents chide me with!

[@junchen9954]

As someone who's fluent in Hokkien, Sichaunese, Cantonese, it's so weird how I can kind of understand most of it like I don't even know this language at all.

[@vampyricon7026]

I had a friend who spoke Shanghainese with her parents and knowing Cantonese and some Standarin, I could understand parts of it.

[@xxkq0]

Sounds like a lot of influence from Mandarin in her speech which is natural for the younger generation. Certainly hear some similarities with Shanghainese though, interesting clip.

[@niluus]

Thank you for the new video! Wenlingnese sounds beautiful. I haven't heard about it before and i found it quite interesting. I hope there will be subtitles soon 😄

[@Hrng270]

Weinglinese have similiarities with Choquinjiang, Shangainese and Mandarim phoneticaly and in nominatives case. Interesting idiom, very local, very regional.

[@cavarsarah9543]

I'm a B2/C1 student of Mandarin and understood the gist + 30-40% of what was said here. The nuances were really interesting, and this (to me) was more immediately decipherable than other Chinese dialects I've heard. Thanks for the video!

[@eb.3764]

what did she say then

[@baileyryan488]

I love the way she spoke

[@austin5104]

this definitely sounds very similar to shanghainese with more mandarin influence. my grandmother speaks to me a lot

[@levelbos6691]

Finally a new video😃

[@Wikitongues]

Thanks for your patience! We are back! 🌏🌎🌍

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

She is so pretty :)

[@LiftedTogether]

Beautiful language to hear. A subtitle would be a perfect addition to the video because although I don’t understand what is being said, her face and smile indicate a beautiful story.

[@Poohze01]

New language for me - sounds lovely!

[@gabrielcoelho19]

Amazing!

[@walruslennon7905]

哈哈我还是可以听懂 I can understand most of it. I speak Ningboese, both Ng dialect

[@whuge]

I can totally understand without subtitle😊

[@yux.tn.3641]

I've actually been to Taizhou before and also to a nearby city called Linyi seriously Zhejiang has so many small cities that are entrepreneurial and creative...its so much better than north China

[@correa1963]

Tudo e lindo. A moça que fala e linda. O idioma falado é lindo. Nao entendo mas é lindo. Todo o video é lindo

[@Hrng270]

Put subtitles and transliteration of this idiom

[@tsunderenekokun]

I can tell she’s also speaking mandarin here

[@SNicole82]

Are there translations?

[@user-wk6em6lr6r]

dialect around Taizhou is so understandable from a prospective of a Northern Wu dialect speaker, I hardly concentrate to listen and understand what she's taliking about.

[@airani_irony]

I can understand a little, because I know Shanghainese!

[@jakerobert3118]

She’s so beautiful

[@ryunosukeakutagawa5280]

Her Wu is heavily influenced by Mandarin especially the vocabulary.

[@eb.3764]

Evidently when you are only literate in Written Chinese aka Mandarin, you will only be able to recall the Mandarin equivalents

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[@user-duangtzff]

哈哈哈杭州人完全听得懂诶

[@JerjerB]

Such amazing facial features! Worthy of Michaelangelo!

[@davidbeauvais1364]

She ends up using mandarin phrases tho. Then some more dialect then mandarin 3-4 words then dialect. This language is surely dying.

[@uncleho1945]

laoshu can already speak it

[@geppuboy2263]

he's passed away....

[@uncleho1945]

@@geppuboy2263 I know, maybe he speaks it in heaven. He always liked dialects and more obscure forms for Chinese languages.

[@KumeSumigawa]

New video?!

[@KumeSumigawa]

I identified some a few phrases, some sound identical to Mandarin but others I didn't understand at all.

[@Wikitongues]

@@KumeSumigawa Thanks for your patience! We are back! 🌏🌎🌍 Do you speak Shanghainese or another Wu Chinese language? We'd be curious to know how similar Wenglingnese sounds to those 🧐

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