Lumazi is a recent development at Shanghainese and Wuromanization. Shanghainese (䏿µ·è¯; pinyin: Shà nghÇihuà , lumanzi: Zanheireiwo, Shanghainese in IPA: ), sometimes referred to as the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai. ... Wu (峿¹è¨ pinyin wú fÄng yán; å³èª pinyin wú yÇ) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese language; linguistically, it is better classified as a Sinitic language. ... In linguistics, romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ...
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Wu (吳方言 pinyin wú fāng yán; 吳語 pinyin wú yǔ lumaziwu niu(nyu)) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese language; linguistically, it is better classified as a Sinitic language.
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.