Tags: Language.
Xuzhou dialect (simplified Chinese: 徐州话; traditional Chinese: 徐州話; pinyin: Xúzhōu huà) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese. It is spoken in the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province of China.Jiangsu has two basic dialect types that of the south influenced by Wu and that of the north. Beginning roughly in the area extending from Changzhou to Danyang there is a change in the dialects spoken. From Yangzhou north the dialect begins to take on the essential form of the northern Jiangsu dialect.