Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 czh
Huizhou Chinese Language 徽州話
Huizhou Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 4.6 million people in 1 country.
Where Huizhou Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Huizhou Chinese
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Wu-Hui Chinese
- Huizhou Chinese
Related languages
About the Huizhou Chinese language
Huizhou Chinese (徽州話) is spoken by about 4.6 million people, which makes it the 193rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Mainfränkisch (4.8 million) and ahead of Sango (4.6 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Wu-Hui Chinese group within the Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic branch.
Where is Huizhou Chinese spoken?
Huizhou Chinese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (4.6 million).
Huizhou Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Wu Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese, Jinyu Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Xiang Chinese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 czh.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.