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Originally Posted by icecho
Taiwanese and Chinese are yellow skin and speak Mandarin Chinese,not same as someone speak English, someone speak Urdu,and there are two contry in fact.
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In response to my post, your post conveys no meaning or may I have not understood.
The Chinese speak not one language.
The traditionally recognized seven main groups, in order of population size are:
1. Mandarin (c. 800 million), not to be confused with Putonghua / Guoyu, often also called "Mandarin".
2. Wu. which includes Shanghainese, (c. 90 million)
3. Cantonese (c. 80 million)
4. Min which includes Taiwanese, (c. 50 million)
5. Hakka (c. 35 million)
6. Xiang (c. 35 million)
7. Gan (c. 20 million)
Chinese linguists have recently distinguished 3 more groups from the traditional seven:
1. Jin from Mandarin
2. Hui from Wu
3. Ping partly from Cantonese
There are many variants of spoken Chinese which are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible.
I have lost my notes on the Chinese languages and the dialects or else I could have given more details.
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