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wuu
`wuu` is the ISO 639-3 code for Wu Chinese as a whole, not for this internet-created “Standard Wu / Lowland Wu” proposal.
Full reasoning
The page is about 標準吳語 / 低地吳語, which it itself describes as an internet-created common language / artificial standard for Wu speakers, not the entire Wu language group. But the code shown here, wuu, is officially assigned to Wu Chinese broadly.
Hard evidence:
- The official ISO 639-3 entry for
wuusays “Wu Chinese [wuu]” and marks it as an active code for a living individual language. - Glottolog likewise maps ISO 639-3
wuuto “Wu Chinese” (wuch1236), not to a separate language called “Standard Wu” or “Lowland Wu”. - A separate language-resource database also lists
wuuas Chinese, Wu with tens of millions of speakers, which clearly does not match the article’s own description of this subject as a constructed/common standard with no native-speaker community.
So the problem is not that wuu is invalid; it is that the article assigns a code for Wu Chinese in general to a specific constructed standard proposal. That is factually misleading.
3 sources
- wuu | ISO 639-3
Documentation: wuu ... Wu Chinese [wuu] ... Status Active ... Scope Individual ... Language Type Living
- Glottolog: Wu Chinese
"id": "wuch1236", "name": "Wu Chinese" ... "hid": "wuu" ... "iso639-3": "wuu"
- Chinese, Wu | Languages and Nationalities of China
Language or Dialect Name (English) Chinese, Wu ... ISO 639-3 Code wuu ... Estimated Speaker Population (in China) 77,175,000