Middle Chinese. Chinese varieties have the greatest differences in their phonology, and to a lesser extent in vocabulary and syntax. Southern varieties tend...

following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. "Chinese" is a blanket...

Mandarin varieties, including the Beijing dialect, retain retroflex initial consonants, which have been lost in southern varieties of Chinese. The Chinese capital...

of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are...

Protection of the varieties of Chinese (Chinese: 保护方言) refers to efforts to protect the continued existence of the varieties of Chinese in mainland China and...

later migrants have been speakers of Cantonese. Yue varieties are not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Chinese, and they are not mutually intelligible...

literature. China portal Language portal Romanization of Wu Chinese Huizhou Chinese Chinatowns in Queens § Flushing Wo Bau-Sae Jiangnan List of varieties of Chinese...

(Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-va / Hak-kâ-fa, Chinese: 客家语; pinyin: Kèjiāyǔ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken...

abbreviated name of Fujian Province. Min varieties are not mutually intelligible with one another nor with any other variety of Chinese (such as Mandarin...

The Chinese Crested Dog is a hairless breed of dog. Like most hairless dog breeds, the Chinese Crested Dog comes in two varieties, without hair and with...