Thank you, Alex. In the West, it is difficult to understand the scale of China. We have opinions, but we know very little. Your work could bring us closer to peace if only people could listen with an open mind. Money talks too loud in most information channels, and we hear what the hegemony wants us to hear. Your eyes are open, and your voice is honest. Can you please everybody? Nobody can. I hope you enjoy your coffee.
In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !
Such a great video. So many dialects in China, I dont think I will understand them all but I just find pure joy that I speak Mandarin and can communicate with 1.4billion Chinese. Just being able to connect with so many people is such a happy feeling.❤🇨🇳from🇭🇰
Even more amazing is that the chinese dialects shared a written script. So even if spoken, they don't understand each other, they can communicate using the written script. More than 2000 years ago, that Qin Shi Huang Ti had real foresight.
In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !
I used to think that it's nust 1 written language with different pronunciations (dialects). But lately I've learned actually they have different roots & although they may have borrowed the same written characters, sometimes it's just to phonetically capture their native spoken language. Also the different words & phrases used for the same thing... 🤯 I don't see this as bad though. It's very interesting. Agree that being able to communicate with a common language is important for common good & personal advancement. But the diversity of additional languages is beautiful & inspiring. I hope the different groups will preserve these local cultures as well. It would be a great loss to the country / humanity to lose these individual flavours that make life so interesting, even as everyone modernise & achieve a more comfortable standard of living.
Excellent video, Alex & very informative too. Great songs/singers too. Well done. Thanks for sharing. Btw, I am from Malaysia where many people, throughout its history, had come from different parts of China (mainly the south) and settled down here in this small country. Hence, a large number of Malaysian Chinese can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Fujianese (Hokkien), Hakka, some Hainanese etc., of course, the Malaysian national language, Bahasa Malaysia (similar to Indonesia Bahasa) and English. Some can even speak Tamil and some Indians, Malays, others can speak some of those Chinese language mentioned and other languages as well. Truly interesting, especially learning how to sing or listening to songs in other languages. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge, Alex. I'm a Chinese descendant from Indonesia that still can speak Hakka, this is the first time I heard the Gan dialect as you mention very close to Hakka. Well...from what I learn so far was, Gan has been categories as Northern Hakka and Meixian Southern Hakka. CMIIW.
@@MindofYǒng My grandpa(外祖父，the father of my mom) came from the Malaysian Islands when my mom was in 8 in 1959 or 1960. They were arranged on the farm for the overseas Chinese by government, and regarded as public officials of the country.
Thank you Alex. Watching your videos reminds me of how complex the Chinese culture is, not just the language. But here in the West there are no end of "China experts" on tv or social media, that don't know the language (much less the many dialects), never spend time in China, don't know a single Chinese person except a few ABC who don't speak their mother tongue, and only learned about China in books written by white guys who don't speak the language either, or tv shows with all the familiar trappings of prejudice and stereotypes.
Great video Alex. This is very informative in helping to understand the numerous languages and dialects of the people and regions and diversity of China. Thank you for your well researched and produced video. Cheers from Australia.
Actually, they're over 300 languages spoken in China. They're all Chinese dialects/languages. Mandarin Chinese is definitely not the only spoken language. It's just taught at schools as a common language (Mandarin's literal translation is a common language) to make sure all Chinese can understand each other. The 56 ethnic groups all have their own dialects, some have more within one ethnic group, despite the regional dialects shared by many ethnicities. For instance, in Yunnan province where 26 ethnic groups co-exist, more than 30 languages are spoken.
There is no Mandarin in China, only in America. We call it Chinese in China. In schools it is called Putonghua meaning Common Language like you said it. BTW, Taiwan does have two official language: Official Language-Chinese; National Language-Mandarin. It’s the only place in China where Mandarin actually exist. The KMT used a foreign word to call its language. What a shame, what a joke.
I am from Shandong. One thing I remember that when I was in high school, one of my classmates is from a village about 60 miles away, I am sure we both speak local dialects, but I honestly couldn't understand him. His dialect is closer to another city's.
Hi Alex, thank you for mentioning the Southern Min (闽南）Language. Taiwanese had Min Language as their official Dialact (台语）and we had speakers all over in Malaysia and Singapore too.
The so called languages he mentioned are mostly dialects of the Han Chinese such as Hakka, Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, the Gan from Jiangxi, Hunan.Hainanese, Shangdong and Shanghainese also speak their own dialects.
Alex,is a guy that tried to let people knows his understanding of China instead of what political propaganda news spreading around, but never lived nor understand theirs cultures. Good work Alex.
Note: even inside mandarin there are so many dialects, and some dialects can be conside as different languages by some experts, like my mother tongue, most experts believe it's a dialects under mandarin called 江淮官话（jianghuai mandarin）but some experts think it's a independent language called 淮语（huai）. Truth is a northerner who speak standard mandarin can't understand a single word what im saying.
Tbh, mandarin development is more recent so besides jianghuai, most mandarin is the same language. Even Jin is closer to standard mandarin than jianghuai in personal opinion. While hokkien has many dialects that are not mutually intelligible and are different languages.
the official Chinese is the Manderin.... others were regional dialecs...myself born in Guangzhou, Guangdong province . I left China when I was 20 in 1970x , due to my native guangzhou dialec, when I travel to China, amazingly whenever I spoke manderin & they knew I come from GuangDong.. haha, now I came from Miami, Florida, USA .
hen hao ... This was very informative, and your English is quite clear and well pronounced. I don't think I'll ever learn any of these eight main languages, but I hope my Mandarin can eventually be as clear as your English!
There are more than 56 ethnic groups in Chiha and all still use their own dialect., have their traditional costumes and traditional practices. Mandarin is spoken by the majority Hans and designated as official language.
In Malaysia, some Hokkien speakers can speak Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka and Mandarin fluently. With addition of National language and International language.
I am amazed by the variety of dialects spoken by Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese. Because of the diversity of dialects and languages concentrated in such a small area, one cannot help being conversant. It may not be fluent but enough to communicate. I met a Chinese taxi driver in Singapore who spoke almost 8 dialects and languages. This is not highly unusual.
Just to clarify a little bit here. Mandarin is the official language in China, other spoken languages are considered dialect except Tibet, Uyghur and Mogolian. Writing is the same except Tibet, Xinjiang and Mogolian, pronunciation is different between provinces and cities.
I really like this show, interesting that so many languages & how they are migrated & adopted I also get the general knowledge about the tone & sound of different dialogue Thank you!
interesting that the min dialects are grouped as one coz the 闽南 dialects (i.e. sounthern min) & 闽北 dialects (nothern Min) are completely mutually unintelligible to each other. my wife's parents came from southern fujian and speak a minnan dialect that other hokkiens and taiwanese can easily understand while my paternal grandparents came from fuzhou, the capital city of fujian province, but the fujian/hokkien people can't understand a simple sentence spoken in it. it's always interesting to ask the different speakers how to write a word spoken in their language, starting with pronounces like me, or 他/她 (him/her). lots of fun
Just like the the Romance languages of Europe having common origins, all the Chinese dialects have a common origin. The Europeans have separate nations based a lot on the way they speak. They also have regional languages or dialects. China has been unified for so long by history, writing, and culture. If classified strictly the way European languages are classified, Chinese dialects could be classified as languages based on how verbally mutual intelligible they are. Just like in the UK, people many times cannot understand each other from different areas. In the UK, they are speaking a heavy accented English and not another language.
I can speak Mandarin, Zhuang Ethnic language壮话, Mao Nan Ethnic language毛南话, Gui Liu language (Official language of the ancient southwest area桂柳话), Cantonese广东话🥰🥰🥰
@@alexfromxinjiang I think you mistaken "language" and "Dialect". Most of you mentioned here is 8 major Dialect of China. Even IF 8 Dialects of China can't understand each other using speaking but they will understand each other using *Hanzi / Chinese Characters*
@@SueC2558 I am not as good as you, can manage partially 3 Chinese dialects. I can speak and listen well in Cantonese because I was born in HK, some Mandarin ( a few lessons from school in HK 50 years ago, and am self-taught), but can only listen to Teochew not really speak because my parents speak Teochew. My parents will talk to me using Teochew and Cantonese and I reply with Cantonese only. I love Teochew opera - I watch it almost daily on youtube with my mom in NYC. I love Cantonese opera too but not my mom.)
After watching this video I realized that the Chinese language is really quite complicated. Take me for example, where I grew up and live, 100 kilometers away, if they all spoke dialects, they wouldn't understand each other. According to my classmates, the situation in their hometown is even more complicated, and the most complicated situation is that two villages 10 kilometers away from each other will not understand each other if they both speak only dialects. China would be unimaginable without the ideological and stable Chinese language and the so-called "official language". I was pleasantly surprised by the end of the video, Beyond's "Sea, Air, Sky". I've probably heard this song hundreds of times in Cantonese.
Nahhhhhhhhh 🦢 I speak Ngai ( Hakka ) and Cantonese 🦣 It's like others learning different kinds of languages 🪳 Hans can teach others Mandarin too! 🦋 MY grandparents came from China and they spoke Ngai ( Hakka ) 🦢🦢
I am Chinese from Vietnam. I speak Cantonese (with the Guanxi accent). I can speak and understand Ngai but my Hakka friends could not understand the Ngai from the Guanxi region. It is my opinion that every Chinese dialect should be classified as a language. Chinese is like Latin. If Spanish, Portuguese and Italians are derivatives of Latin and each are considered a language so should the other Chinese dialects. In fact, people who speaks Spanish can understand more or less Italian and Portuguese words and understand the gist. However, it is nearly impossible for a Cantonese to verbally communicate with Hokkien, Gan or Wu, unless it is in written form.
One of the Min language variants in South East Asia is Penang Hokkien. Min dialect is hard to master due to its pronounciation is far different from mandarin pronounciation with addition of nasal tones and multiple tones. But Penang Hokkien uses words never heard in Min language, making it more harder to master. Penang hokkien out of all hokkien variants is the most difficult, we can understand Min dialects but not a single Hokkien speaker can understand us clearly. Unfortunately, Penang Hokkien is at the brink of extinction, schools do not allow students to speak dialects, and there is not written pronounciation for this dialect. I myself learned dialects through my grandparents, basically a dialect passed down through generational speech.
Thanks for the wonderful lessons. I am a Malaysian with Taishanese ancestory and I am the last speaker of Taishanese language now. Sad to say. My wife is Hokkien of Fujian and my children speak Mandarin with smattering of Cantonese.
Hey Alex, can you provide the name of the two singers of the Zhuang language? Would be great to find them on youtube music or spotify! ;) thanks for the good job!
Alex please correct me if i am wrong, that mandarin/Chinese is the only national language of China, spoken by almost all Chinese, while that of the provincial, county or regional so called 'languages' are more appropriate to refer them as dialects of their respective regions, counties or provinces, eg hakka or teochew are regional dialects not as language.
That is incorrect. If two people can't understand each other, they are speaking different languages. People who only speak Mandarin cannot have a conversation with someone who only speaks Hakka. But each of these languages do have many dialects.
This video clip is misleading about the Chinese language. There is only one Chinese language which is known as putong hua. The so-called languages mentioned in the video are actually referred to as dialects. Each of these dialects are further known as sub-dialects, because over time the tone and ascent evolved. It is like the English language of the various Anglophone countries each evolving to the own accent after many years of development. This is why the collective west is trying to capitalise on these dialects to cause problems for China. Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language.
It's the other way around. Guan(Mandarin), Wu, Yue, Min, Hakka, Jin etc are indeed different languages because they are mutually unintelligible although they are all descendents of ancient Chinese. It's solely for political reasons to regard them same language.
The video is about the Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in China. China actually has 302 languages but linguists have divided Chinese into eight to 10 main language groups, with each group having several sub-dialects. Just like France, English, Spanish all essentially evolved from Latins. Straightly speaking even Vietnamese, Japanese, Koreans and many other neighbor languages were evolved from Chinese languages in China.
Mandarin is a singular language. Jin is a dialect of Mandarin. Yue is a language subfamily in sinitic family like mandarin, and cantonese and taishanese are two different languages in Yue language family.
First of all, dialects ARE languages, or say the subsets of languages. Mandarin (aka "Pu Tong Hua" today, literally means "the common language") is the CURRENT official language of China. Back in the days, China also had "JiangHuai Mandarin"（江淮官话）and "SouthWestern Mandarin"（西南官话）, or more if I was not acknowledged. "Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language". This is false. What the first emperor (aka 秦始皇) had done was called "书同文、车同轨", literally means "writing with the same scripts, riding on the same tracks", which was meant to standardize the writing system and logistic system throughout the country.
people think different Chinese languages are dialectal because for the most part the Han has one common written language. except if you look tell a non-Cantonese speaker to look at the Yue language pages, they will have varying degrees of difficulty trying to understand what's written there in Cantonese Chinese. That's not simply a dialectal difference. nevermind the non-sinitic language groups. hell, most native-purely Canton Cantonese speakers will have a difficult time parsing their neighbor's Siyi dialect if it's too heavily, famously spoken by Taishanese actor Karl Maka most younger Hong Kong kids don't even know who he is.
The founding prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew is a Hakka and educated in England. His "Speak Mandarin Campaign" policy started in 1979 had made the Hakka dialect gone extinct in Singapore. Now the majority Hokkien dialect is heading towards extinction too.
It is not Lee's fault. Many Teochewnese in Singapore still speak Teochew and perform Teochew opera, just like those live in Thailand and China. It's up to the new generation of each culture whether they want to preserve their own unique culture. It's important for all Chinese able to speak Mandarin so they can communicate with each other.
Han Chinese speak more than 10 dialects like Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese, Foochow, Henghua, Hainanese and Leizhou which are mostly spoken by the Han Chinese in South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Other dialects include Hunan, Gan in Jiangxi, Shanghainese, Sichuan, Yunan and all the dialects from different provinces in China. So out of the 10 languages listed in the video, some of them are not languages but dialects of Han Chinese. There are languages like Mongolian, Tibetian, Muslim groups from Xijiang province, Manchurian, Korean, Zhuan, Russian, Thai from Yunan and about 30 more languages are spoken by other minorities from different parts of China.
Hakka peoples originate from Mongolia, and occasionally some will have curly wavy hair and brown or even red hair!!! We have relatives who are Hakka chinese with wavy hair and there are rare hakka relatives with brownish and rare even more, i have seen red brown natural hair in Malaysia, chinese not mixed race
The Hakka did not originate from Mongolia. I am a Hakka myself. My ancestors migrated south from Henan Province. All the people in our area are Hakka speakers. Our physical features were distinctly different from those of modern Mongolians. And generally the skin is relatively white, the eyes are relatively large double eyelids, the pupil color is relatively light. The head is small. The skeleton is small. Spatula teeth. The teeth are relatively flat, rarely buck teeth or tiger teeth. The facial features are different from those of modern Mongolians. The hair is brown or black. No red hair. Our customs are closer to the ancient Han people.
Though its a great video, giving a deep insight into the chinese languages, you didnt meantion Mongilian and Korean language which are one of the 55 ethnicities in China.
This is educational but each race should be given a bit of time to speak their own language in a normal everyday usage so that we can actually listen to how each language actually sounds like.
Well, I belong to the Xan Miao Group and I'm 8th generation in Southeast Asia then to the USA after the Vietnam War. In modern day I called myself the "Hmong." My family or last name is Yang. My grand father told me that in our ethnic group whom last name is Yang, we have a symbolize or ban not to eat any kind of heart because it happen long ago since our ancestors were still in China. I don't know why, could anyone correct me. Thanks.
Alex, there is a difference between dialects 方言 and languages 语言. In your presentation, you mixed the two together. Except Tibetan Uygur and Zhuang, all others you listed as dialects 方言, not a different language from Mandarin.
Many of the linguistics described are dialects of China, not languages. i.e. Suzhou, Cantonese. And Mandarin is China official dialect. Beautiful China.❤❤❤❤❤
They SHOULD be properly classified as languages NOT dialects. Particularly a good number are not mutually intelligible. West gets confused bc China's language system does not fit into their own cultural lens. The unifiying element of 'Chinese" is the script which is a pitctographic system design principally to allow communication across a vast territory through characters regardless of the language spoken. This is why West gets themselves confused. Spoken, many of these so called "dialects" are not mutually understandable. If anything, Latin languages are as much in common as are Germanic root languages as various Chinese "dialects" The problem with the West then is they believe they have diversity and that China is a monolithic block. Culturally if you looked at Europe, Church is a church much as Temple in China is a temple. The difference is the Europeans prefer a racial/language understanding of the Nation state where China's understanding is of a vast collective of people with similar historical experience over. Han are not as homogenious as many in the West prefer to portray. Those in West who harp on about cultural genocide of the minorities should do well to consider that even after so many millenia of intergration. Han speakers still practise their various (particularly Southern) languages. The South being mountainous contributes to the varieties of language but cultural expression, distinctiveness and identities are hard to eradicate. Recasting these Han languages properly as languages not dialect may help the West mentally shift their otherwise straight jacketed cultural lens and understanding of languages and what is Chinese (in itself handicap by it being a victim of the vagaries of the English language)
@@MsOpineminded not true, Mandarin aka common dialect of China, one writing system with multiply pronunciations. One country one language. European, even most languages were originated from Greece or Latin, Europe has over 30 countries, every country has their own language, different spelling, different pronunciation altogether. When traveling to China, great majority of the people would know Mandarin.
im hakka , im Malaysia Chinese.... my origin frm china .... ur not frm China but ur origin frm there...same as me .... dont try so hard to explain ur not CHINA ,,, Chinese will not exist if not migrant frm CHINA....
Bro in china uyghur muslim are not in detention camp Uyghur muslim are happy or in camps Plz tell me about uyghur muslim condition & yours in xingyang province.
@twbacssi 👇👇👇 Fun Fact : If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !! Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum? Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof. However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China. How low would these people go?
@@smartwork366 👇👇👇 Fun Fact : If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !! Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum? Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof. However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China. How low would these people go?
事实上，在中国使用汉字书写系统的诸多“语言”，应该被称为方言更为贴切，尽管如果使用拉丁字母标注时，发音有很大的不同，但语法通常都一致。 In fact, many "languages" that use the Chinese writing system in China should be called dialects as well as. Although the pronunciation is very different when using Latin alphabet to instruct it, but the grammar is usually same.
The Tibetan language, Uyghur language, and Mongolian language are real languages spoken by their corresponding ethnical groups, but Xiang, Haka, Gan, etc are dialects of Chinese, but not conflated with the former ones.
@@artugert Don't pretend you know the Chinese language better than I do. Hokkien and Cantonese are just two of the dozens or hundreds of mutually unintelligible dialects in China
@@derrickchu8201 This has nothing to do with knowing any Chinese languages. I DO know linguistics better than you, as well as English. “Mutually unintelligible dialects” is an oxymoron.
@@artugert Despite your claim that you know linguistics, you know very little about the relationship between Chinese dialects and the Chinese language, and you need to deepen your understanding of the relationship between the Chinese writing system and dialects before commenting. You don't know China at all.
@@artugert I'm guessing you don't even know the basic knowledge that Chinese characters are monosyllabic words, and that the reason dialects within the Chinese language don't understand each other is because of variations in the pronunciation of the same words. Other than that, all dialects have exactly the same grammar.
Cantonese is most spoken after mandarin 1. Hong Kong 2. China - All mandarin speaker understand and able to speak 3. Malaysia 4. Singapore. The Cantonese singer should be on stage not in the street. Best singing
Not all are dialects, Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian, Miao, Hani, Bai, etc., they all have their own script, and this script is still used as a printed text in the local. So this does not refer to dialects, which are based on the use of the same language but pronounced in different tones.
About the Min dialect part, in fact, you are only talking about Minnan dialect, not all Fujian languages. Fujian's Fuzhou dialect and Putian dialect are different from Minnan Language, and the number of users is large.
Sir, you have mixed up the languages and dialects, there are totally different concepts. Chinese (Han language) has 7 main dialects including the Yue dialect (Guangdong and Guangxi etc.) The majority of the rest of the 55 minorities have their own language, like what you have mentioned Tabit and Zhuang etc.; but they are totally different things and you can't mix them up.
@@kuga7423I think it's really a language... every ethnic group in China can't understand each other if there's no Mandarin. If you call it a dialect, you can definitely understand each other,but whereas in FACT, you can't understand each other if you don't speak Mandarin...Even the Hokkien language has dialects..such as Zhangzhou, quanzhou, Xiamen hokkien dialects sometimes it's hard to understand, especially for southern min people meeting northern min....This is just Hokkien I'm also actually confused about the difference between dialect and language. If you call it Mandarin dialect, Chinese people of different ethnicities can't understand each other if they don't use Mandarin....Even Hokkian can't understand Mandarin if they don't study at school
This is wrong. We don't have a Chinese language, but the group of Chinese languages, which is a main branch of the big family of Chinese-Tibetan languages.
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Thank you, Alex. In the West, it is difficult to understand the scale of China. We have opinions, but we know very little. Your work could bring us closer to peace if only people could listen with an open mind. Money talks too loud in most information channels, and we hear what the hegemony wants us to hear.
Your eyes are open, and your voice is honest. Can you please everybody? Nobody can.
I hope you enjoy your coffee.
DOH! He is posing a lot of misleading information and you are still appraising him for it.
In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !
@@tupoleviTaiwanese shut up
Don't believe Alex he is Chinese communist government propaganda man
Hi OP, just want to show appreciation to your well articulated comment🙏👍
Alex 謝謝你 我是新加坡的潮州人 謝謝你的視頻讓我看到不一樣的地方方言
Such a great video. So many dialects in China, I dont think I will understand them all but I just find pure joy that I speak Mandarin and can communicate with 1.4billion Chinese. Just being able to connect with so many people is such a happy feeling.❤🇨🇳from🇭🇰
Such diverse and beautiful languages, China's complexity and cultural wealth always amazes me. Thanks for your wonderful videos.
Even more amazing is that the chinese dialects shared a written script. So even if spoken, they don't understand each other, they can communicate using the written script. More than 2000 years ago, that Qin Shi Huang Ti had real foresight.
In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !
@@jivvyjack7723 Japanese people also understand Chinese writings although spoken language is completely different.
I used to think that it's nust 1 written language with different pronunciations (dialects). But lately I've learned actually they have different roots & although they may have borrowed the same written characters, sometimes it's just to phonetically capture their native spoken language. Also the different words & phrases used for the same thing... 🤯 I don't see this as bad though. It's very interesting. Agree that being able to communicate with a common language is important for common good & personal advancement. But the diversity of additional languages is beautiful & inspiring. I hope the different groups will preserve these local cultures as well. It would be a great loss to the country / humanity to lose these individual flavours that make life so interesting, even as everyone modernise & achieve a more comfortable standard of living.
Excellent video, Alex & very informative too. Great songs/singers too. Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Btw, I am from Malaysia where many people, throughout its history, had come from different parts of China (mainly the south) and settled down here in this small country. Hence, a large number of Malaysian Chinese can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Fujianese (Hokkien), Hakka, some Hainanese etc., of course, the Malaysian national language, Bahasa Malaysia (similar to Indonesia Bahasa) and English. Some can even speak Tamil and some Indians, Malays, others can speak some of those Chinese language mentioned and other languages as well. Truly interesting, especially learning how to sing or listening to songs in other languages. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge, Alex. I'm a Chinese descendant from Indonesia that still can speak Hakka, this is the first time I heard the Gan dialect as you mention very close to Hakka. Well...from what I learn so far was, Gan has been categories as Northern Hakka and Meixian Southern Hakka. CMIIW.
赣语并不是客家话，这两种方言是并行的。江西省中部和北部讲赣语，南部的赣州讲客家话，广东的东北部和福建的西南部也讲客家话。不过在中国，客家话内部的差异特别大，在东南亚的客家人大多都是广东客家人的后裔。希望对你有所帮助❤
@@stoneandrain1234 一般认为赣语和客家话在唐末五代开始分化，两宋各自完成独立（现在依旧有人认为客赣是同一种方言）。江西话主要是江西中部、北部，湖南一部，安徽西南一隅。
@@stoneandrain1234 Xie xie for the information, my late grandpa was come from Guangdong.
@@zhidongchen8759 Interesting. I like history, especially about my ancestor.
@@MindofYǒng My grandpa(外祖父，the father of my mom) came from the Malaysian Islands when my mom was in 8 in 1959 or 1960. They were arranged on the farm for the overseas Chinese by government, and regarded as public officials of the country.
Thank you Alex. Watching your videos reminds me of how complex the Chinese culture is, not just the language. But here in the West there are no end of "China experts" on tv or social media, that don't know the language (much less the many dialects), never spend time in China, don't know a single Chinese person except a few ABC who don't speak their mother tongue, and only learned about China in books written by white guys who don't speak the language either, or tv shows with all the familiar trappings of prejudice and stereotypes.
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Such an informative and interesting video! I am from the Fujian province and even in neighbouring towns the dialect is different!
Great video Alex. This is very informative in helping to understand the numerous languages and dialects of the people and regions and diversity of China. Thank you for your well researched and produced video. Cheers from Australia.
Actually, they're over 300 languages spoken in China. They're all Chinese dialects/languages. Mandarin Chinese is definitely not the only spoken language. It's just taught at schools as a common language (Mandarin's literal translation is a common language) to make sure all Chinese can understand each other. The 56 ethnic groups all have their own dialects, some have more within one ethnic group, despite the regional dialects shared by many ethnicities. For instance, in Yunnan province where 26 ethnic groups co-exist, more than 30 languages are spoken.
He just listed the top 10.
There is no Mandarin in China, only in America. We call it Chinese in China. In schools it is called Putonghua meaning Common Language like you said it. BTW, Taiwan does have two official language: Official Language-Chinese; National Language-Mandarin. It’s the only place in China where Mandarin actually exist. The KMT used a foreign word to call its language. What a shame, what a joke.
你不要在此误导别人了，希望你无恶意。
不止 我汉族的方言都有近千种
I am from Shandong. One thing I remember that when I was in high school, one of my classmates is from a village about 60 miles away, I am sure we both speak local dialects, but I honestly couldn't understand him. His dialect is closer to another city's.
Great video of the different languages spoken in China.
Well researched.
Hi Alex, thank you for mentioning the Southern Min (闽南）Language. Taiwanese had Min Language as their official Dialact (台语）and we had speakers all over in Malaysia and Singapore too.
The so called languages he mentioned are mostly dialects of the Han Chinese such as Hakka, Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, the Gan from Jiangxi, Hunan.Hainanese, Shangdong and Shanghainese also speak their own dialects.
Great video! Thank you for putting in examples of each Chinese dialect / language. It really helps. Keep it Up!
Alex,is a guy that tried to let people knows his understanding of China instead of what political propaganda news spreading around, but never lived nor understand theirs cultures. Good work Alex.
Note: even inside mandarin there are so many dialects, and some dialects can be conside as different languages by some experts, like my mother tongue, most experts believe it's a dialects under mandarin called 江淮官话（jianghuai mandarin）but some experts think it's a independent language called 淮语（huai）. Truth is a northerner who speak standard mandarin can't understand a single word what im saying.
Tbh, mandarin development is more recent so besides jianghuai, most mandarin is the same language. Even Jin is closer to standard mandarin than jianghuai in personal opinion.
While hokkien has many dialects that are not mutually intelligible and are different languages.
the official Chinese is the Manderin.... others were regional dialecs...myself born in Guangzhou, Guangdong province . I left China when I was 20 in 1970x , due to my native guangzhou dialec, when I travel to China, amazingly whenever I spoke manderin & they knew I come from GuangDong.. haha, now I came from Miami, Florida, USA .
Many thanks Alex. 感谢分享。👍
My pleasure!
Very educational Alex. Thanks for the information.
Informative & lovely👍👏👌
hen hao ...
This was very informative, and your English is quite clear and well pronounced. I don't think I'll ever learn any of these eight main languages, but I hope my Mandarin can eventually be as clear as your English!
Alex, Tibetan is not the official language in Tibet. Official language in Tibet is Mandarin. Basically, Tibetan is the most used local language there.
I think Mandarin is official dialect/language for all of China.
Very informative. Keep up the good work, Alex. 👍
mandarin is the chinese language which has been favoured in China . But cantonese hakka , Jin ,minnan are also chinese!
There are more than 56 ethnic groups in Chiha and all still use their own dialect., have their traditional costumes and traditional practices. Mandarin is spoken by the majority Hans and designated as official language.
My mother tongue is Hokkien,but I can also speak Chinese Mandarin very well
I know many Hokkienese can speak Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien as well.
@@dragondescendant1 But our accents aren't so straight, they're cute accents
Hokkienese is a dialect of the Chinese, same as Mandarin
In Malaysia, some Hokkien speakers can speak Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka and Mandarin fluently. With addition of National language and International language.
I am amazed by the variety of dialects spoken by Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese. Because of the diversity of dialects and languages concentrated in such a small area, one cannot help being conversant. It may not be fluent but enough to communicate. I met a Chinese taxi driver in Singapore who spoke almost 8 dialects and languages. This is not highly unusual.
Great video, thanks!
The kid at 1:48 is from Yulshul so he probably sings in Kham Tibetan, not Lhasa.
Great quality video, Alex! Thanks for sharing!👍
Min language is one of the most spoken language in Singapore and Malaysia as well
the best song to end the vid, great illustration for the complex diversity of the Chinese languages PEACE
Same as in Indonesia ,there are hundreds of languages and tribes ,BUT everybody speaks Indonesian language !!!!
I think it is important for the standard language in one country since the communication between citizens is necessary.
We have one national language Mandarin and our characters which can communicate throughout the whole country
.. All chinese languages are chinese. However, Mandarin is considered the universal language of Chinese speaking people.
Just to clarify a little bit here. Mandarin is the official language in China, other spoken languages are considered dialect except Tibet, Uyghur and Mogolian. Writing is the same except Tibet, Xinjiang and Mogolian, pronunciation is different between provinces and cities.
I really like this show, interesting that so many languages & how they are migrated & adopted
I also get the general knowledge about the tone & sound of different dialogue
Thank you!
interesting that the min dialects are grouped as one coz the 闽南 dialects (i.e. sounthern min) & 闽北 dialects (nothern Min) are completely mutually unintelligible to each other. my wife's parents came from southern fujian and speak a minnan dialect that other hokkiens and taiwanese can easily understand while my paternal grandparents came from fuzhou, the capital city of fujian province, but the fujian/hokkien people can't understand a simple sentence spoken in it. it's always interesting to ask the different speakers how to write a word spoken in their language, starting with pronounces like me, or 他/她 (him/her). lots of fun
Thanks!
Thank you for your information, it's very educational 👏👏👏👏👏
Just like the the Romance languages of Europe having common origins, all the Chinese dialects have a common origin. The Europeans have separate nations based a lot on the way they speak. They also have regional languages or dialects. China has been unified for so long by history, writing, and culture. If classified strictly the way European languages are classified, Chinese dialects could be classified as languages based on how verbally mutual intelligible they are. Just like in the UK, people many times cannot understand each other from different areas. In the UK, they are speaking a heavy accented English and not another language.
The title of the video says "Top 10 Most Spoken Languages". They absolutely are languages. Each of these languages also has its own dialects.
These languages might be different from each other. But they all sound Chinese to foreign ears like mine😂.
Good job Alex! Keep going 👍
Great information I learned today
I can speak Mandarin, Zhuang Ethnic language壮话, Mao Nan Ethnic language毛南话, Gui Liu language (Official language of the ancient southwest area桂柳话), Cantonese广东话🥰🥰🥰
厉害👍
Thumb 👍to you. I too speak four ethnic languages. Mandarin, Cantonese, Teo chew and Khmer?!? 🤔😜😅😉Oh! One more aussie 😊.
SueC 你也真厉害👍
@@alexfromxinjiang I think you mistaken "language" and "Dialect".
Most of you mentioned here is 8 major Dialect of China.
Even IF 8 Dialects of China can't understand each other using speaking but they will understand each other using *Hanzi / Chinese Characters*
@@SueC2558 I am not as good as you, can manage partially 3 Chinese dialects. I can speak and listen well in Cantonese because I was born in HK, some Mandarin ( a few lessons from school in HK 50 years ago, and am self-taught), but can only listen to Teochew not really speak because my parents speak Teochew. My parents will talk to me using Teochew and Cantonese and I reply with Cantonese only. I love Teochew opera - I watch it almost daily on youtube with my mom in NYC. I love Cantonese opera too but not my mom.)
After watching this video I realized that the Chinese language is really quite complicated. Take me for example, where I grew up and live, 100 kilometers away, if they all spoke dialects, they wouldn't understand each other. According to my classmates, the situation in their hometown is even more complicated, and the most complicated situation is that two villages 10 kilometers away from each other will not understand each other if they both speak only dialects. China would be unimaginable without the ideological and stable Chinese language and the so-called "official language".
I was pleasantly surprised by the end of the video, Beyond's "Sea, Air, Sky". I've probably heard this song hundreds of times in Cantonese.
Incredible video,
The most innovative and creative Hakka songs are from Malaysia. The Hakka song shown so out
Nahhhhhhhhh 🦢 I speak Ngai ( Hakka ) and Cantonese 🦣 It's like others learning different kinds of languages 🪳 Hans can teach others Mandarin too! 🦋 MY grandparents came from China and they spoke Ngai ( Hakka ) 🦢🦢
I am Chinese from Vietnam. I speak Cantonese (with the Guanxi accent). I can speak and understand Ngai but my Hakka friends could not understand the Ngai from the Guanxi region. It is my opinion that every Chinese dialect should be classified as a language. Chinese is like Latin. If Spanish, Portuguese and Italians are derivatives of Latin and each are considered a language so should the other Chinese dialects. In fact, people who speaks Spanish can understand more or less Italian and Portuguese words and understand the gist. However, it is nearly impossible for a Cantonese to verbally communicate with Hokkien, Gan or Wu, unless it is in written form.
The Capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is Nanning not Liuzhou.
And the last seven are dialects not languages.
One of the Min language variants in South East Asia is Penang Hokkien. Min dialect is hard to master due to its pronounciation is far different from mandarin pronounciation with addition of nasal tones and multiple tones. But Penang Hokkien uses words never heard in Min language, making it more harder to master. Penang hokkien out of all hokkien variants is the most difficult, we can understand Min dialects but not a single Hokkien speaker can understand us clearly.
Unfortunately, Penang Hokkien is at the brink of extinction, schools do not allow students to speak dialects, and there is not written pronounciation for this dialect. I myself learned dialects through my grandparents, basically a dialect passed down through generational speech.
penang hokkien is a rojak dialect as a result of historical circumstances
Thanks for the wonderful lessons. I am a Malaysian with Taishanese ancestory and I am the last speaker of Taishanese language now. Sad to say. My wife is Hokkien of Fujian and my children speak Mandarin with smattering of Cantonese.
Hey Alex, can you provide the name of the two singers of the Zhuang language? Would be great to find them on youtube music or spotify! ;) thanks for the good job!
13:12 Wu dialect is the most beautiful Chinese dialect
Thank you Alex
No Chinese will learn dialects, only Mandarin can communicate, and many young people have stopped speaking dialects.
Alex please correct me if i am wrong, that mandarin/Chinese is the only national language of China, spoken by almost all Chinese, while that of the provincial, county or regional so called 'languages' are more appropriate to refer them as dialects of their respective regions, counties or provinces, eg hakka or teochew are regional dialects not as language.
人民币上就印有5种，另外还有像东巴文，彝文等等也是有文字的
That is incorrect. If two people can't understand each other, they are speaking different languages. People who only speak Mandarin cannot have a conversation with someone who only speaks Hakka. But each of these languages do have many dialects.
This video clip is misleading about the Chinese language. There is only one Chinese language which is known as putong hua. The so-called languages mentioned in the video are actually referred to as dialects. Each of these dialects are further known as sub-dialects, because over time the tone and ascent evolved. It is like the English language of the various Anglophone countries each evolving to the own accent after many years of development. This is why the collective west is trying to capitalise on these dialects to cause problems for China. Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language.
It's the other way around. Guan(Mandarin), Wu, Yue, Min, Hakka, Jin etc are indeed different languages because they are mutually unintelligible although they are all descendents of ancient Chinese. It's solely for political reasons to regard them same language.
The video is about the Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in China. China actually has 302 languages but linguists have divided Chinese into eight to 10 main language groups, with each group having several sub-dialects. Just like France, English, Spanish all essentially evolved from Latins. Straightly speaking even Vietnamese, Japanese, Koreans and many other neighbor languages were evolved from Chinese languages in China.
Mandarin is a singular language. Jin is a dialect of Mandarin. Yue is a language subfamily in sinitic family like mandarin, and cantonese and taishanese are two different languages in Yue language family.
First of all, dialects ARE languages, or say the subsets of languages. Mandarin (aka "Pu Tong Hua" today, literally means "the common language") is the CURRENT official language of China. Back in the days, China also had "JiangHuai Mandarin"（江淮官话）and "SouthWestern Mandarin"（西南官话）, or more if I was not acknowledged.
"Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language".
This is false. What the first emperor (aka 秦始皇) had done was called "书同文、车同轨", literally means "writing with the same scripts, riding on the same tracks", which was meant to standardize the writing system and logistic system throughout the country.
people think different Chinese languages are dialectal because for the most part the Han has one common written language. except if you look tell a non-Cantonese speaker to look at the Yue language pages, they will have varying degrees of difficulty trying to understand what's written there in Cantonese Chinese. That's not simply a dialectal difference. nevermind the non-sinitic language groups. hell, most native-purely Canton Cantonese speakers will have a difficult time parsing their neighbor's Siyi dialect if it's too heavily, famously spoken by Taishanese actor Karl Maka most younger Hong Kong kids don't even know who he is.
The founding prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew is a Hakka and educated in England. His "Speak Mandarin Campaign" policy started in 1979 had made the Hakka dialect gone extinct in Singapore. Now the majority Hokkien dialect is heading towards extinction too.
It is not Lee's fault. Many Teochewnese in Singapore still speak Teochew and perform Teochew opera, just like those live in Thailand and China. It's up to the new generation of each culture whether they want to preserve their own unique culture. It's important for all Chinese able to speak Mandarin so they can communicate with each other.
There are multiple dialects. But the official language is Mandarin, spoken by vast majority. This 8s v same in all countries.
The first emperor did a good job to unite the different Chinese tribes under one race.
jin language can be widely said in neimenggu, shanxi and shaanxi. The olders actually don't speak mandarin, although they can understand mandarin
Han Chinese speak more than 10 dialects like Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese, Foochow, Henghua, Hainanese and Leizhou which are mostly spoken by the Han Chinese in South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Other dialects include Hunan, Gan in Jiangxi, Shanghainese, Sichuan, Yunan and all the dialects from different provinces in China. So out of the 10 languages listed in the video, some of them are not languages but dialects of Han Chinese. There are languages like Mongolian, Tibetian, Muslim groups from Xijiang province, Manchurian, Korean, Zhuan, Russian, Thai from Yunan and about 30 more languages are spoken by other minorities from different parts of China.
Hakka peoples originate from Mongolia, and occasionally some will have curly wavy hair and brown or even red hair!!!
We have relatives who are Hakka chinese with wavy hair and there are rare hakka relatives with brownish and rare even more, i have seen red brown natural hair in Malaysia, chinese not mixed race
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Nope
The Hakka did not originate from Mongolia. I am a Hakka myself. My ancestors migrated south from Henan Province. All the people in our area are Hakka speakers. Our physical features were distinctly different from those of modern Mongolians. And generally the skin is relatively white, the eyes are relatively large double eyelids, the pupil color is relatively light. The head is small. The skeleton is small. Spatula teeth. The teeth are relatively flat, rarely buck teeth or tiger teeth. The facial features are different from those of modern Mongolians. The hair is brown or black. No red hair. Our customs are closer to the ancient Han people.
There is no pure Chinese nor any human race is pure nowadays, except maybe some human tribes still living in isolated regions.
Though its a great video, giving a deep insight into the chinese languages, you didnt meantion Mongilian and Korean language which are one of the 55 ethnicities in China.
Languages是语言.Dialect是方言.两种是不一样的意思.一个民族可以有很多民系, 民系中可以有很多方言.汉族有很多民系, 因此有很多方言, 如客家话, 广府话, 福建话, 潮州话, 兴化, 福州, 海南, 雷州, 都是东南亚华人的方言.壮族, 蒙古人, 新疆人, 藏族, 不是汉族, 其他如朝鲜族, 俄罗斯族等等50多种少数民族, 都有自己的语言.
thanks for ending the video with the most terrific song ever written in the history of the Chinese people! ❤ Kakui 🤟
What is the name of the Southern Ming song at 11.39 ?
茄子蛋EggPlantEgg - 浪子回頭
4:25 sounds like Cantonese.
This is educational but each race should be given a bit of time to speak their own language in a normal everyday usage so that we can actually listen to how each language actually sounds like.
Cantonese sure more than 120M, I can say tat all the "Chinese" in other country beside from mainland could or is saying Cantonese
Well, I belong to the Xan Miao Group and I'm 8th generation in Southeast Asia then to the USA after the Vietnam War. In modern day I called myself the "Hmong." My family or last name is Yang. My grand father told me that in our ethnic group whom last name is Yang, we have a symbolize or ban not to eat any kind of heart because it happen long ago since our ancestors were still in China. I don't know why, could anyone correct me. Thanks.
美国的杨氏苗族历史很曲折啊，希望不要再有战争
Alex, there is a difference between dialects 方言 and languages 语言. In your presentation, you mixed the two together. Except Tibetan Uygur and Zhuang, all others you listed as dialects 方言, not a different language from Mandarin.
其实也没有那么明确，Spanish 和 Portuguise 的差异真的有吴语和粤语差异那么大么？如果像你的理解按照文字体系统一标准的话，罗曼语系都可以叫罗曼语的各个方言，反正用的都是罗马字母的演化体。但这其实会造成很多问题，比如越南语，使用的都是法语字母，他是法语语系么？中亚各国和蒙古说接近阿拉伯语和突厥语的语言，但用的都是西里尔字母，你能说他们就是俄语语系么？包括壮语，我自己是壮族人。但是壮语本身并没有文字系统，用的都是威妥玛拼音，这个到底又算什么呢？
Many of the linguistics described are dialects of China, not languages. i.e. Suzhou, Cantonese. And Mandarin is China official dialect. Beautiful China.❤❤❤❤❤
They SHOULD be properly classified as languages NOT dialects. Particularly a good number are not mutually intelligible.
West gets confused bc China's language system does not fit into their own cultural lens.
The unifiying element of 'Chinese" is the script which is a pitctographic system design principally to allow communication across a vast territory through characters regardless of the language spoken.
This is why West gets themselves confused.
Spoken, many of these so called "dialects" are not mutually understandable.
If anything, Latin languages are as much in common as are Germanic root languages as various Chinese "dialects"
The problem with the West then is they believe they have diversity and that China is a monolithic block.
Culturally if you looked at Europe, Church is a church much as Temple in China is a temple. The difference is the Europeans prefer a racial/language understanding of the Nation state where China's understanding is of a vast collective of people with similar historical experience over.
Han are not as homogenious as many in the West prefer to portray.
Those in West who harp on about cultural genocide of the minorities should do well to consider that even after so many millenia of intergration. Han speakers still practise their various (particularly Southern) languages.
The South being mountainous contributes to the varieties of language but cultural expression, distinctiveness and identities are hard to eradicate.
Recasting these Han languages properly as languages not dialect may help the West mentally shift their otherwise straight jacketed cultural lens and understanding of languages and what is Chinese (in itself handicap by it being a victim of the vagaries of the English language)
@@MsOpineminded not true, Mandarin aka common dialect of China, one writing system with multiply pronunciations. One country one language. European, even most languages were originated from Greece or Latin, Europe has over 30 countries, every country has their own language, different spelling, different pronunciation altogether. When traveling to China, great majority of the people would know Mandarin.
Learn to read.
侬戆卵了伐
What about the Manchurian language?
Good video, but is it more like different dialects rather than languages?
nope.
Alex, are you also posting this video on B zhan platform?
Love china from India ❤❤❤
🇨🇳💞🇮🇳
Today, Modi came to America and massaged Biden's balls very well.
很喜欢你的频道
谢谢
Like your videos. Alex. My dialect is Cantonese.....I am not from China!
这里强调身份应该用“我不是中国籍”
im hakka , im Malaysia Chinese.... my origin frm china .... ur not frm China but ur origin frm there...same as me .... dont try so hard to explain ur not CHINA ,,, Chinese will not exist if not migrant frm CHINA....
It's amazing how these languages, hakka, Cantonese, are still spoken in three to four generations of Chinese living abroad in Europe and America.
So beautiful, in culture and scenery.
Great video Alex.
Vicky liew
I’m also a Hakka Chinese born n raised in Thailand, took my mother back to her village twice in Meixian .
普通话应是最简单的汉语。虽然南方人大都分不清. (Z,C,S)与.(ZH,CH,SH) ,(N与NG)
Bro in china uyghur muslim are not in detention camp
Uyghur muslim are happy or in camps
Plz tell me about uyghur muslim condition & yours in xingyang province.
@twbacssi
👇👇👇
Fun Fact :
If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !!
Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum?
Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof.
However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China.
How low would these people go?
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Fun Fact :
If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !!
Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum?
Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof.
However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China.
How low would these people go?
@@smartwork366 probably shadow banned
The First Emperor of China was able to unify the Chinese written language, but no one has been able to unify the Chinese spoken language since.
事实上，在中国使用汉字书写系统的诸多“语言”，应该被称为方言更为贴切，尽管如果使用拉丁字母标注时，发音有很大的不同，但语法通常都一致。
In fact, many "languages" that use the Chinese writing system in China should be called dialects as well as. Although the pronunciation is very different when using Latin alphabet to instruct it, but the grammar is usually same.
我认为语系是说的语言，英文称spoken language. 比如粤语系的方言非常多，包括广州，佛山，台山，甚至广西玉林的方言。所以说语系是方言也不正确。
广东粤语区每个城市的粤语都有不同==离广州越远变化越大==@@sammuell3100
HI Alex what's song name in 11:40
茄子蛋EggPlantEgg - 浪子回頭
@@christan286 謝謝
Chinese restaurant explosion: 31 dead. Alex, you never show your face anymore. Tell us what they did to you.
There are accidents all over the world! be normal yourself
The Tibetan language, Uyghur language, and Mongolian language are real languages spoken by their corresponding ethnical groups, but Xiang, Haka, Gan, etc are dialects of Chinese, but not conflated with the former ones.
They are Sinitic langauges, NOT dialects. They are mutually unintelligible.
@@artugert Don't pretend you know the Chinese language better than I do. Hokkien and Cantonese are just two of the dozens or hundreds of mutually unintelligible dialects in China
@@derrickchu8201 This has nothing to do with knowing any Chinese languages. I DO know linguistics better than you, as well as English. “Mutually unintelligible dialects” is an oxymoron.
@@artugert Despite your claim that you know linguistics, you know very little about the relationship between Chinese dialects and the Chinese language, and you need to deepen your understanding of the relationship between the Chinese writing system and dialects before commenting. You don't know China at all.
@@artugert I'm guessing you don't even know the basic knowledge that Chinese characters are monosyllabic words, and that the reason dialects within the Chinese language don't understand each other is because of variations in the pronunciation of the same words. Other than that, all dialects have exactly the same grammar.
Someone help me. I need to fight that Cantonese song in the last clip
歌名：海阔天空 歌手：beyond
@@雪客-i9c thanks but can you please write the names in English letters cause I can't read that
@@雪客-i9c oh I think I found it. I wrote Cantonese song beyond and yeah I found it. Thank you so much
@@indiangum4691 Under A Vast Sky
Cantonese is most spoken after mandarin 1. Hong Kong 2. China - All mandarin speaker understand and able to speak 3. Malaysia 4. Singapore. The Cantonese singer should be on stage not in the street. Best singing
来福建，本地闽中的我都崩溃了，离开20公里以上，基本听不懂😅
It is one of our Chinese big problems. Only one kind of language can unify all Chinese. Egotistical attitude would automatically disappear.
what the title of the last song in cantonese?
The song was sang by Wong Ka Kui of group Beyond.
喜欢里面的歌曲😊
I believe those are considered as dialects.
nope
Not all are dialects, Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian, Miao, Hani, Bai, etc., they all have their own script, and this script is still used as a printed text in the local. So this does not refer to dialects, which are based on the use of the same language but pronounced in different tones.
Your belief is incorrect.
Anyone knows what's the Hokkien song?
《浪子回头》
Are Teochew people consider ethnic minority or Han majority?
汉族
Teochew people write in Chinese, so they are Hans. Teochew is one of the hundreds of Chinese dialects.
@@hyc1266 Thank you. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all minorities in China write in common language?
Now it is admitted that Tibetan is different from Chinese. Then why is Chinese group as Sino-Tibetan?
Sino-Tibetan is the name of the common ancestor of all Chinese and Tibetan languages, just like Indo-European is to Indian and European languages.
About the Min dialect part, in fact, you are only talking about Minnan dialect, not all Fujian languages. Fujian's Fuzhou dialect and Putian dialect are different from Minnan Language, and the number of users is large.
It's the top 10 dialect GROUPS and a representative dialect of each group.
The characterization of language is incorrect. Many of them are dialects not language.
Which one ??? Be clear !
No, none of these are dialects, but each of these languages do have many dialects (all languages do).
One National Language and many Dialects
Sir, you have mixed up the languages and dialects, there are totally different concepts. Chinese (Han language) has 7 main dialects including the Yue dialect (Guangdong and Guangxi etc.) The majority of the rest of the 55 minorities have their own language, like what you have mentioned Tabit and Zhuang etc.; but they are totally different things and you can't mix them up.
What's the difference between a language and a dialect?
@@kuga7423I think it's really a language... every ethnic group in China can't understand each other if there's no Mandarin. If you call it a dialect, you can definitely understand each other,but whereas in FACT, you can't understand each other if you don't speak Mandarin...Even the Hokkien language has dialects..such as Zhangzhou, quanzhou, Xiamen hokkien dialects sometimes it's hard to understand, especially for southern min people meeting northern min....This is just Hokkien
I'm also actually confused about the difference between dialect and language. If you call it Mandarin dialect, Chinese people of different ethnicities can't understand each other if they don't use Mandarin....Even Hokkian can't understand Mandarin if they don't study at school
This is wrong. We don't have a Chinese language, but the group of Chinese languages, which is a main branch of the big family of Chinese-Tibetan languages.