The Chinese speech

1. The Chinese speech, or panel of related speeches, is spoken by the Hans,
   who be 94 percent of Chinese inhabitants. One strengthen covering the language in
   Chinese is Hanyu?Xi§, the Han tongue. Different, non-Han languages are
   spoken by the back 6 percent under the public, the so-called minority individuals,
   such as the Mongols and the Tibetans.
   The Chinese language is divided into a number of large accents (with their
   many sub-dialects). peakers of different idioms in a number of slips feel each other
   unintelligible, but accents are brought together by the case that they percentage a
   common book. This book describes the more significant and prescribed phrase, which is
   known by a number of names: Mandarin, modern standard Chinese, or putonghua
   ('common speech'). It is spoken in its various sub-dialect forms by almost three-
   quarters of the Hans throughout the northern, central and West realms of the
   country, but its measure pronunciation and grammar are associated with the
   Beijing region of northward China's, though not with Beijing metropolis itself. Every other dia-
   lects are Wu (spoken in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including Impress), Xiang (in
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   Hunan), Cantonese (in Guangdong), Min (in Fujian), Hakka (in northeast
   Guangdong as serious as related southern provinces) and Gan (in Jiangxi).
   Cantonese, Min and Hakka are widely spoken among overseas Chinese com-
   munities. In Taiwan a kind of Min accent is employed, though the formal language
   is Mandarin, brought over via the Nationalists during 1949, and called there guoyu
   ('national language'). Mandarin in also widely use in Singapore, where reference is
   known as huayu ('Chinese language'). Elsewhere, Chinese emigrants took their
   particular dialects with them, and in Britain, for trip, the China people,
   who are largely from Hong Kong, practically all speak Cantonese.