20/10/2015 · As a result, the Xiang dialect has felt substantial impact from Mandarin Chinese, and is more similar to Mandarin than most of the other dialects on this list. 6. Hakka. The Hakka dialect is something of an oddity on this list, as it is spoken primarily in isolated regions with limited communication.

The point of all this is that Mandarin is one of many dialects, and it is important to understand the diversity of dialects within China. Linguists have split Chinese into somewhere between seven and ten main language groups—the largest being Mandarin (also known as Northern), Wu, Min, and Yue—and each group also has a number of sub-dialects.

5. Xiang Chinese Dialect (Hsiang) Also called Hsiang and Hunanese, the Xiang Chinese dialect is spoken in Hunan province, northern Guangxi and parts of Hubei and Guizhou provinces. This dialect can further be divided into five subgroups: Chang …

If we’re talking a broader classification, most linguists divide Chinese into 7-10 dialect groups. And if you break those groups down further into regional variants, you find more than 200. In a nutshell, China is very big and very old.

There are a lot of Chinese dialects, hundreds of them. Linguists generally accept that there are seven major modern Chinese dialect groups: Mandarin, Wu, Xiang, Gan, Kejia, Min and Yue. The primary divide is between Mandarin and all of the rest …

21/12/2021 · Officially, there are 10 different varieties of Chinese. In Chinese, they are referred to as 汉语方言 (Hànyǔ fāngyán), or “Chinese dialects.” Note that linguists consider many of these “dialects” (方言 fāngyán) to be separate languages (语言 yǔyán).