Traditionally, the dialects of Chinese are divided into 7 groups; however, modern linguistic analysis places them into 14 groups:
Mandarin is the official dialect in mainland China.
Chinese (Cantonese dialect)
Mandarin is not a language. It is a dialect of the Chinese language.
The official language in China is Mandarin, and the most common dialect is the Beijing dialect.
Chinese Yes Chinese is the official language but the dialect is Ya Yan
Mandarin is the most widely used Chinese dialect.
Yes, all dialects of Chinese have basically the same written language.
Chinese; Mandarin dialect (from northern china) and Min Nam dialect (from Fujian province).
Chinese is a broader term that refers to the entire language family, which includes various dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and others. Mandarin, specifically, is the most widely spoken dialect of Chinese and is the official language of China and Taiwan.
There are three words in Mandarin 话 huà - meaning dialect, language, spoken words, word, speech, talk, etc. 文 wén - language, culture, writing yǔ 语 - dialect language speech You can say for example: Zhong Wen - Chinese language Han Yu - Mandarin language (language of the Han people) Pu tong hua - Mandarin Zhong guo hua - Chinese language/Chinese words
The dialect spoken in Xiamen is called the Xiamen dialect, which is a variant of the Southern Min Chinese language. It is also known as Hokkien and is spoken in southern Fujian province as well as in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
May not be understood by most speakers of English. A good example is Chinese language -- I understand that there are over 300 dialects and many Chinese cannot understand some regional dialects.