People in Hubei speak Mandarin dialects; most of these dialects are classified as Southwestern Mandarin dialects, a group that also encompasses the Mandarin dialects of most of southwestern China.
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People in Hubei speak Mandarin dialects; most of these dialects are classified as Southwestern Mandarin dialects, a group that also encompasses the Mandarin dialects of most of southwestern China.
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The program, which started last fall, is one of two in the nation that teaches Chinese and the only one using the Mandarin dialect rather than the less prevalent Cantonese.
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Most Chinese people, in Sichuan and in a broad arc from the northeast ( Manchuria ) to the southwest ( Yunnan ), use various Mandarin dialects as their home language.
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In 1984, the proportion understanding the standard language nationally rose to 90 % and the proportion understanding the standard language among the speakers of Mandarin dialects rose to 91 %.
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Mandarin dialects frequently employ neutral tones in the second syllables of words, creating syllables whose tone contour is so short and light that it is difficult or impossible to discriminate.
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Cantonese, spoken by most Hong Kong people as their mother tongue, differs from China's official Mandarin dialect and is not widely understood by most mainlanders from outside the Guangdong Province.
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The traditional written form, Literary Chinese, was replaced with written vernacular Chinese, which drew its vocabulary and grammar from a range of Northern dialects ( now known as Mandarin dialects ).
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Hong Kong may require schools to use the official Mandarin dialect to teach the Chinese language, replacing the Cantonese dialect that Hong Kongers have long been speaking, an official said Tuesday.
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Taiwan's president, Lee Teng-hui, himself boasts of his Taiwanese roots and outside Taipei is more likely to speak the local Taiwanese dialect than the Mandarin dialect favored by Chinese from northern China.
