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Bookmark or Share- How Many Dialects Are There in Chinese? The Ultimate BreakdownMandarin Chinese is divided into four groups: Southwest, Southern, Northwestern and Northern. All these variations of Chinese have a representative dialect, for example in Standard Mandarin it is the Beijing dialect. This is probably the most studied area of Chinese dialect differentiation.
- Dialect Groups of the Chinese Language - Oxford BibliographiesChao illustrated geographic distribution of China’s linguistic groups and described major phonological features typical of the southern, central, and northern Chinese dialect groups respectively. Linguistic differences between Chinese dialect groups are compared to those between European languages.
- Chinese languages | History, Characteristics, Dialects, Types, & Facts ...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.
- What Are the Different Chinese Dialects? - ThoughtCoThere are many Chinese dialects in China, so many that it is hard to guess how many dialects actually exist. In general, dialects can be roughly classified into one of the seven large groups: Putonghua (Mandarin), Gan, Kejia (Hakka), Min, Wu, Xiang, and Yue (Cantonese).
- Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects - WikipediaThe Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 汉语方言地图集; pinyin: Hànyǔ Fāngyán Dìtú Jí), edited by Cao Zhiyun and published in 2008 in three volumes, is a dialect atlas documenting the geography of varieties of Chinese.
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