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3 days ago · Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]
3 days ago · 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language .
May 13, 2024 · Chinese languages, principal language group of eastern Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese exists in a number of varieties that are popularly called dialects but that are usually classified as separate languages by scholars. More people speak a variety of Chinese as a
May 20, 2024 · This map illustrates the linguistic diversity in China and its surrounding regions. Each area on the map is color-coded to represent the primary language spoken in that region. Here are some key points.
1 day ago · Teochew Min. Teochew [ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan) [iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as Chiuchow, its Cantonese rendering, due to English romanization by colonial officials and explorers.
May 21, 2024 · In this accessible and informative book, S. Robert Ramsey lucidly explains what the Chinese language is—its social and geographical situation, its history, its range of dialects, the structure of the modern standard language, and the writing system.
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May 24, 2024 · Written by Sally Guo Updated May. 24, 2024. While spoken Chinese is a large family of regional, mutually unintelligible languages (aka fāngyán, or "regional languages") all belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, within each separate language there may be numerous dialects which, in contrast, are mutually intelligible within the given ...
