Yuehai. Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form. Guangfu dialects Guangzhou...

to the Yuehai dialects, the most prominent of which is Cantonese (Guangzhou/Guangfu dialect). Standard Cantonese is based on the Yuehai dialects belongs...

lived in Hong Kong. In Yuan Jiahua's 1962 dialect manual, Yue dialects were divided into five groups: Yuehai, covering the Pearl River Delta and Xi River...

Chinese. It forms part of the Guan–Bao (莞寶片; 莞宝片, Dongguan–Bao'an) branch of Yuehai. It is spoken by older generations in Luohu and Futian districts in Shenzhen...

Beihai dialect Qinzhou dialect Fangcheng dialect Lingshan downtown dialect Transitional dialects[citation needed] The transitional Qinlian-Gaoyang-Yuehai (Plain...

Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the...

speak standard Mandarin rather than the Beijing dialect. According to a UN report, nearly 100 Chinese dialects, especially those spoken by the 55 ethnic minorities...

Hokkien dialects spoken in southern Fujian (in southeast China), in the area centered on the city of Quanzhou. Due to migration, various Quanzhou dialects are...

Dabu (大埔), Raoping (饒平; 饶平) and Zhao'an (詔安; 诏安) dialects. Among these, the Sixian and Changle dialects originate in Jiaying Prefecture, Guangdong, established...

consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu...

of Oujiang dialects, and some are not mutually intelligible with the Wenzhou city dialect and the Wencheng dialect, but neighboring dialects are often...

local dialects in a government office or a bank. The usage of local dialects in all other spheres is officially tolerated. Standardization of dialects, however...

it is not difficult for speakers of other Mandarin dialects to understand. List of Chinese dialects Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee...

living in nearby Shanghai. The Suzhou dialect is mutually intelligible with dialects spoken in its satellite cities such as Kunshan, Changshu, and Zhangjiagang...

Kinmen). The Zhangzhou dialects are classified as Hokkien, a group of Southern Min varieties. In Fujian, the Zhangzhou dialects form the southern subgroup...

with other clusters Local dialect (点 diǎn), which are the dialects sampled by the Atlas In the list below, local dialects are not listed. Groups are...

Minjiang dialect is especially difficult for speakers of other Mandarin dialects to understand. Sichuanese can be further divided into a number of dialects: Chengdu–Chongqing...

known as Taiwanese. The dialects of the Teoswa / Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong, including Teochew and Swatow dialects, have difficult mutual intelligibility...

the Jiang-Huai Mandarin dialects of the migrants who arrived during the Ming and Qing periods, and more recently by Wu dialects in particular, acquired...

Taiwanese Hakka dialects and mainland China's Hakka dialects; even in Taiwan, two major local varieties of Hakka exist. The Meixian dialect (Moiyen) of northeast...

The Meixian dialect (Chinese: 梅縣話; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mòi-yan-fa; IPA: [moi˩ jan˥ fa˥˧]), also known as Moiyan dialect, as well as Meizhou dialect (梅州話), or Jiaying...

Xiang dialects. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-018366-8 Yuán, jiāhuá (1989). Hànyǔ fāngyán gàiyào (An introduction to Chinese dialects). Beijing...

in Southern Min: A Dialectal and Comparative Perspective". International Symposium on Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects. Li, Rulong 李如龍; Chen...

Press. ISBN 0-521-29653-6. Cantonese and other dialects (in Chinese) Classification of Northern Min Dialects from Glossika Jian'ou Romanized Vernacular Bible...

proposed, the Jinnish dialects were universally included within it, mainly because Chinese linguists paid little attention to these dialects at the time. In...

Chinese Dialects, the number of initials (including a zero initial) ranges from 15 in some southern dialects to a high of 35 in Chongming dialect, spoken...

original Ba-Shu Chinese than other Sichuanese dialects, such as Minjiang dialect. Chengdu-Chongqing Dialect is spoken within central Chongqing, Chengdu...

this, there are fewer dialects that are used in present-day Taiwan, including but not limited to prominent Sixian and Hailu dialects. The internal variation...

China. The Changxing dialect is the main native language of Changxing county. Other dialects spoken by migrants include other Wu dialects from outside the...

of them are part of the same Yue branch. Like other Yue dialects, such as the Goulou dialects, Taishanese pronunciation and vocabulary may sometimes differ...