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3 days ago · [5] [6] The Macro-Bai languages, whose classification is difficult, may be an offshoot of Old Chinese and thus Sinitic; [7] otherwise, Sinitic is defined only by the many varieties of Chinese unified by a shared historical background, and usage of the term "Sinitic" may reflect the linguistic view that Chinese constitutes a family of distinct languages, rather than variants of a single language.
Sep 16, 2024 · Consider Wenzhou or other languages - they use Chinese characters but are not understandable to the majority of Chinese. They are totally different, but the Chinese government uses the term 'dialect' everywhere.
Sep 20, 2024 · One single subgroup, Sinitic languages (or ‘Chinese dialects’), constitutes the overwhelming majority of ST language speakers, spread over most of the present-day People’s Republic of China.
4 days ago · Most of the current spread of Sino-Tibetan languages is the result of historical expansions of the three groups with the most speakers – Chinese, Burmese and Tibetic – replacing an unknown number of earlier languages. These groups also have the longest literary traditions of the family.
4 days ago · Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Compared with southern varieties, the language has fewer vowels, final consonants and tones, but more initial consonants.
6 days ago · The first of these is the northern variant, of which the Beijing dialect, or Beijing hua, is typical and which is spoken to the north of the Qin Mountains–Huai River line; as the most widespread Chinese tongue, it has officially been adopted as the basis for a national language.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Surprised? Well, Chinese is not just one language, but rather a family of languages compromising 8 major groups: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Hakka, Min, Hokkien, Gan, and Xiang. In this article, you’ll learn all about the different languages spoken in China and understand the spoken and written variations of the Chinese language. Let’s get started!
