Does Funing dialect in northern Jiangsu belong to southern dialect or northern dialect?
I think it's a southern dialect. Northern dialects, except the ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, can understand the meaning, but the tone is a bit strange. Southern dialects, Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialects, Jiangxi dialects and Hunan dialects, especially Lingnan dialects, have their own systems. Really ignorant. Funing dialect sounds like Shanghainese, and Wunong is soft. I come from the north.