江苏高淳（古柏）方言属于宣州片吴语。本书在实地调查的基础上，记录了该方言的声韵调系统、连续变调、单字音表、同音字汇，3000余条词汇，100余条语法例句以及若干口语标音语料。对该方言语音的古今演变规律及音韵特点作了详细说明。

本书对汉语方言的研究有一定的参考价值，也可供一般语言文字工作者、辞书编纂者和民俗学者参考。

The Jiangsu Gaochun (Gubai) dialect belongs to the Xuanzhou slice-Wu language. Based on field research, this book records the dialect's phonological system, continuous inflection, monogram phonetic list, homophonetic vocabulary, more than 3,000 vocabulary, more than 100 grammatical example sentences, and several spoken phonetic corpus. The ancient and modern evolution rules and phonological characteristics of the dialect are described in detail. This book has certain reference value for the study of Chinese dialects, and can also be used as a reference for general language workers, lexicographers and folklore scholars.（AI翻译）