 Hangzhou dialect

Hangzhou dialect (; "Rhangzei Rhwa"), is spoken in the city of Hangzhou and its immediate suburbs, but excluding areas further away from Hangzhou such as Xiāoshān (蕭山) and Yúháng (余杭) (both originally county-level cities and now the districts within Hangzhou City).The number of speakers of the Hangzhou dialect has been estimated to be about 1.2 to 1.5 million.