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Traditionally, the dialects of Chinese are divided into 7 groups; however, modern linguistic analysis places them into 14 groups:

  1. Gan
  2. Hakka
  3. Huizhou
  4. Jin
  5. Mandarin
  6. Min → Min Bei
  7. Min → Min Dong
  8. Min → Min Nan
  9. Min → Min Zhong
  10. Min → Pu-Xian
  11. Wu
  12. Xiang
  13. Yue
  14. Mandarin → Dungan
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