Wu kineski
Wu kineski (wu; ISO 639-3: wuu ), jedan od 13 sinitičkih ili kineskih jezika, odnosno makrokineskog jezika, kojim govori 77.201.820 Wu Kineza, koji čine dio nacionalnosti Han. Wu kineski raširen je južno od rijeke Changjiang i to istočno od Zhenjianga, na otoku Chongming i ušću Changjianga. Sjeverno od rijeke u okolici Nantonga, Haimena, Qidonga i Qingjianga. Govori se i u provinciji Zhejiang južno do Quzhoua, Jinhua i Wenzhoua; 1.820 u SAD-u.

Postoji više dijalekata: taihu (s pod-dijalektima piling, su-hu-jia, tiaoxi, hangzhou, lin-shao, yongjiang), jinhua (kinhwa), taizhou, oujiang, wuzhou, chuqu (pod-dijalekti chuzhou, longqu), xuanzhou (s tongjing, taigao, shiling), šangajski.

Šangajsko narječje je najvažnija inačica wu jezika kojemu je Šangaj glavno središte.

Izvori

Literatura 

 Globalization, National Culture and the Search for Identity 
 Modernisation a Threat to Dialects in China  – An excellent article originally from Straits Times Interactive through YTL Community website
 Middlebury Expands Study Abroad Horizons  
 Mind your language (from The Standard, Hong Kong) – This newspaper article provides a deep insight on the danger of decline in the usage of dialects
 China: Dialect use on TV worries Beijing (originally from Straits Times Interactive, Singapore and posted on AsiaMedia Media News Daily from UCLA)  – Article on the use of dialects other than standard Mandarin in China where strict media censorship is high.
 Standard or Local Chinese – TV Programs in Dialect (from Radio86.co.uk)  – Another article on the use of dialects other than standard Mandarin in China.

 Zhao Yuanren [Zhào Yuánrèn 赵元任]: Contrastive aspects of the Wu dialects. In: Language 43:1 (1967), S. 92-101.
 Jerry Norman: Chinese (Cambridge, 1988). Enthält einen Überblick über die chinesischen Dialekte.
 Zhào Yuánrèn 赵元任: Xiàndài Wúyǔ de yánjiū 《现代吴语的研究》 (Studien über die modernen Wu-Dialekte, 1928).
 Qián Nǎiróng 钱乃荣: Dāngdài Wúyǔ yánjiū 《当代吴语研究》 (Studien über die Wu-Dialekte der Gegenwart, 1992).

Vanjske veze 
Ethnologue (14th)
Ethnologue (15th)

Resursi na Wu dijalektu 
 glossika.com
 Classification of Wu Dialects – By James Campbell
 Tones in Wu Dialects – Compiled by James Campbell
 Wu Chinese Online Association () - A website aimed at modernization of Wu Chinese, including basics of Wu, Wu romanization scheme, pronunciation dictionaries of different dialects, Wu input method development, Wu research literatures, written Wu experiment, Wu orthography, a discussion forum etc.
 “The elegant language in Jiangnan area” ()
Tatoeba Project Tatoeba.org - Examples sentences in Shanghainese dialect, and in Suzhouan dialect.

Kineski dijalekti
Jezici Kine