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There are seven main groups as well as three which are up for debate whether they should have their own group and four currently ungrouped dialects of the Chinese spoken language as classified by linguists. Underneath each there are many sub groups so it it hard to say exactly how many dialects of Chinese there are.
The main groups as well as where they are mainly spoken are classified by linguists as:
Mandarin: Northern and Southwestern China as well as Taiwan and Singapore
Wu: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai
Min: Fujian, Taiwan, as well as parts of Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
Cantonese or Yue: Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau
Xiang or Hunanese: Hunan
Hakka or Kèjiā: Several provinces across southern China, Taiwan, as well as parts of Malaysia and Singapore
Gan: Jiangxi
Some groups that have been debated whether they should have their own group or not:
Hui: Anhui (Normally classified as a subgroup of Gan)
Jin: Shanxi as well as parts of Hebei, Henan and Inner Mongolia (Normally clasified as a subgroup of Mandarin)
Pinhua: Guangxi (Normally classified as a subgroup of Cantonese/Yue)
The ungroup consist of:
Danzhou: Danzhou, Hainan
Xianghua: Western Hunan
Shaozhou Tuhua: Border regions of Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi
Dungan: Kyrgyzstan (Sometimes classified as a subgroup of Mandarin)
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∙ 14y agoThere are 6,912 main languages and 39,491 alternate language names and dialects
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∙ 13y agoHere's the list of dialects in Japan :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_dialects
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∙ 16y ago2000 different dialects
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