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4 days ago · Wu, also called Shanghainese, is primarily spoken in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other eastern regions in China. There are around 6 to 7 Wu dialects spoken by around 80 million people. While the Northern Wu dialects are mutually intelligible and form a distinct language family, the Southern Wu dialects are not mutually intelligible. 4. Hakka.
3 days ago · Standard Chinese is the standard language of China (where it is called 普通话; pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called either 华语; 華語; Huáyǔ or 汉语; 漢語; Hànyǔ). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
1 day ago · Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, and is currently spoken by over 82.4 million native speakers. [1]
1 day ago · The Han Chinese (alternatively Han people, [ a ] or colloquially simply Chinese[ 17 ]) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population. The Han Chinese represent 92% of the population in ...
3 days ago · Probably the best known of these southern dialects is Yue, particularly Cantonese, which is spoken in central and western Guangdong, Hong Kong, and in southern Guangxi—a dialect area in which a large proportion of overseas Chinese originated.
3 days ago · China - Altaic, Ethnic Groups, Geography: While the minorities of the Sino-Tibetan language family are thus concentrated in the south and southwest, the second major group of languages—the Altaic languages—is represented entirely by minorities in northwestern and northern China.
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4 days ago · The mainlanders speak Mandarin Chinese, the official language of China. Many mainlanders may also speak a dialect of the province from which they originally came, although that practice has diminished considerably among the younger generations born on Taiwan.
