How Many Languages Are There in China?

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Comment from : Olly Richards

As an Indian I am really surprised of Chinese language or Chinese has so many different dialects and forms 😮😮brAtleast in India nobody say we speak indianese 😂😂😂
Comment from : Yashwardhan Tubid

This video is actually underrated
Comment from : Christy Li

Han, yue, min, szin are different nations with different languages
Comment from : Vasilii Platonov

Yep It's absurd how whole language groups with several branches and dozens of mutually unintelligble languages and hundreds of dialects are commonly referred to as dialect
Comment from : BuleBinjai93

India: Hold my beer!
Comment from : Allan Stephens

13:13 As a Thai speaker, I recognize 3 of the 6 words
Comment from : Anal Holes

At least 20
Comment from : 山川川山

Imagine if all the romance languages are spoken as they are now but share the same spelling for everything 😬
Comment from : Zhe Fu

I was enjoying the video until I hear “Cantonese was spoken mainly in Hong Kong” Come on, Cantonese is spoken mainly in Canton province, not just Hongkong The vast majority of Cantonese speaking people live in Mainland Canton, Hongkong is just a small city
Comment from : vrdreamer

8:58 - 9:01 Why he sounds like a minecraft villager?!
Comment from : Sanic Hegehogs Channel

d-ih-nas-t-ee 💀brbrDie-n-uh-st-ee ✅
Comment from : Scratch Cloud

Chinese, its an umbrella for a broader spectrum
Comment from : zhulong

Why is it that English speakers always pass texts on the screen terribly fast? What is the hurry? Give us time to read them properly!!! (Yes, I know I can slow down the speed of the video, but I really don't think all English speakers are super super fast readers Why should EVERYBODY see the trouble of going to the settings and clicking to slower speed?)💢
Comment from : Liisa3139

Henry Guo Teach Chinese in Jokes and Tell Jokes

I’ve made many videos teaching Chinese language vividly and in a funny way I hope you can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese
Comment from : Henry Guo Teach Chinese in Jokes and Tell Jokes

bro, you missed the fact that Mandarin is also the official language of Taiwan
Comment from : Kalvin Wei

I’m Chinese and I don’t view mutually unintelligible languages to be all Chinese This is purely nationalism It’s like saying all Romance languages are one language
Comment from : Zeitgeist X

What pisses me off (no offence) is that there is another chinese language that isn’t mentioned and it’s basically from the countryside
Comment from : Romeo Blue

i wanna know what's the main language in china tell me
Comment from : ρчσє

Olly, very educational and informative Thank you
Comment from : William William

The way you say "hokkien" is on point! Great accent 👍 tjin sui!
Comment from : Chiang Wey Tan

吃了吗？😂
Comment from : Wiltanis Han

Cantonese: Has 9 tonesbrMe who already struggled with the 4 tones in Mandarin:
Comment from : The girl on pointe

By the way, do Singaporeans speak Mandarin or Singaporeanese? Is it it's own language? I mean, it's Mandarin but the 'laa' added to the end of every 5th sentence Go figure! 🤣
Comment from : SoWhoDecidedThat

👍👍👍👍👍
Comment from : Leman Lie

我是重庆人，方言是四川话
Comment from : Fan Lorde

It's mandarin, is close to orange it's more tasty than orange but it's a bit bitter
Comment from : Kimo Shoheeb

Wonderful China, mysteriously complex as diversed as its 56 ethnicities and many more of its dialects 😍😍😍😍
Comment from : Daniel Wong

Åttio kanske?
Comment from : very604

Just like to point out some errors: brChinese is a language, a macrolanguage with its own ISO code brMandarin was made national language in early 1900s, long before Mao came to power That's why it is also Taiwan's national language Mandarin aka Official Chinese has been lingua franca since Ming and Qing dynasty brChina was unified in 221 BC under Qin dynasty, Chinese script was standardized But because the script is pictogram, it's non-phonetic Thus, spoken form vary regionally despite sharing same script
Comment from : benishan

I'm trying to find my town thru hearing dialects because I can't pinyin
Comment from : songs Azury Kirayo wants to

There are two parts of a language: spoken part and written part It's political bias to define a language solely with the spoken part, that is EurocentrismbrbrLet me gave you some examples: every Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can read the same copies of 20th century Jin Yong's novels or 7th century Chinese poetries, or 14th century Ming's novels And it is impossible for English speakers to read Alexandre Dumas' novels in French without learning French brbrThere is no such things as to "translate" Chinese classical written by "old Chinese" speakers or 7th century poetries written by "middle Chinese" speakers into modern Cantonese or MandarinbrbrIt's not as simple as "yes/no" to say these are different Chinese languages or dialets
Comment from : li hb

The thing is Mandarin, the official Chinese language, unites the more than 600 Dialects, something western languages do not have Its like American english is the common language among the immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia
Comment from : Charles Lee

"How are you to "Die", This Australian English, in a way, just like Hong Kong Cantonese speaking brPlease don't try to fool the Hong Kong young adult la brYou have British English, American, Australian, Singapore, English brDo you mean they are not speaking English? brYou mean we are using Cantonese and we are not speaking Chinese? brWe have more than 30 Chinese dialects in China So, what is your plan? brDo you want HK become a country because we are using dialects to communicate? brYou want India separate into different countries because of their dialects? brYou want all English speaking countries become as one or divide Great Britain to different countries because Britain have different dialects too brLOL
Comment from : Mona Tam

江山如此多娇，引无数英雄竞折腰。惜秦皇汉武，略输文采。唐宗宋祖，稍逊风骚。一代天骄，成吉思汗，只识弯弓射大雕。俱往矣，数风流人物，还看今朝。
Comment from : 酒克斯

Chinese Manchurian is very different but similiar with korean and japanese, In china more than 56 languages but to make it easy communicate just learning mandarin
Comment from : Tendy Bear

borned and raised in guangdong province,i speak hakka,cantonese and mandarin
Comment from : king

Can We All Agree That Mandarin Could Be Chinese (or yue)
Comment from : Nævi The Cat

Cantonese has been fading away because of Mandarin
Comment from : Bosco tseng

Like a hundred?
Comment from : Torantes

Probably more than 10000
Comment from : Lucky 19

Chinese proverb
Comment from : Lucky 19

Mandarin it is
Comment from : Dr Benn

I grow up in Shanghai, and even in the same city there are at least two major dialects(tho one is dying) + a ton of variations, and I can only understand one
Comment from : Carl Xu

The Chinese situation is very similar to Italy's There is Italian, the national language taught in all the schools, but there are a lot of regional tongues which are usually called dialects even though many are actually separate languages A Sicilian speaking Sicilian would not easily understand someone in Venetp speaking Venetian And funny enough, they're all subdivided into their own dialects which differentiate from town to town
Comment from : Reazzurro90

Mandarin has 5 tonesSay with me “嗯” this world pronounced in the 0 tone! Only native Chinese speakers or people who know Mandarin well knowing this truth!!🎉🎉
Comment from : xu E

It's good to come across a video that debunks the common claim that more people speak Chinese than any other language My experience teaching English to students from all over China is that they find it easier to speak English to each other outside the classroom than they do Mandarin Though officially Mandarin is now compulsory in all schools across China, in practice this is not the case, and local languages and dialects are used instead
Comment from : Alan Whiplington

I'm learning Mandarin
Comment from : Adam

Chinese the most intelligent language ever invented by human beings If Chinese doesn't use characters and alphabet instead, the dialects will become different languages and much more complex the all of the European languages together
Comment from : 12388696

It is better to think of China as a continent, instead of a country
Comment from : rasnac

As learning the Mandarin Chinese language I think there is 7 language's cuz I'm learning Chinese to know more my dad is fluent in Chinese my dad said that there is more than one language so I thought it's 7 am I right?
Comment from : APRILLE JOY DELA ROSA

The northern dialect at 9:00 -- sounds like an impersonation of Edward G Robinson
Comment from : Jay Kaufman

Even the users of dialects of a specific Chinese languages, such as Mandarin 官話 or of Cantonese 粵語 could not speak directly with users of other dialects of the same language I have been told by my friends from Luoyang 洛陽 (west of Henan province speaking the Luoyang dialect of the central plaint Mandarin 中原官話) that they could not understand the words of peoples from Xuzhou 徐州 (north of Jiangsu province speaking the Xuhuai dialect of the central plaint Mandarin) Things become more complicated when some languages are considered a regional common language eg Hakkanese is a common language among peoples from south China mountains, not only a language used within the Hakkanese Some of the users are not even Han peoples, such as the Yao, She, Miao When a Hakkanese go to bigger cites to earn a living, many of them would choose to use Cantonese (Canton dialect), so as their decendents
Comment from : See Kai Fan

Your statement is very wrong and needs to be corrected Language includes speech and text, and the representative of language is the writing system Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu are all written in Chinese characters and have the same writing system, but they have different pronunciations due to differences in regions and usage habits They can only be regarded as dialects, not real languages Mandarin is a pronunciation that most Chinese people can understand In China, there are Tibetan, Mongolian and Xinjiang languages, and their pronunciations are completely different from Chinese characters The main thing is that the writing system is also completely different So Tibetan, Mongolian, and Xinjiang are another language
Comment from : J Zeng

Thank you for your good video!
Comment from : 喜羊羊桑

Only one: xi jinping’s voice
Comment from : Albert Hong

Kazakh is not "chinese" Xinjiang is under occupation
Comment from : Bagzhan Sadvakassov

There is only 1 chinese language The rest are considered as dialects!
Comment from : Ron Y

Just because China is not a country, it should be a lot of countries From Tibet to Manchuria, from Mongolia to Canton, they just united by CCP by military force Some Chinese will say that they all use Chinese characters so they should be one, but it is absolutely a sophistry: most of European countries use Latin alphabet so they should be one country? In addition the Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians and others have never used characters To liberate them from Chinese Empire is what we should do next to deal Russian Empire
Comment from : あきつゆ

In India , They have 22 official language and we have 18k+ spoken language (approximate) ,
Comment from : SHINOSUKE NOHARA🤟🏻

In my hometown, Guangxi Province, the pronouncation between towns of distance of 50 miles is so different that we can barely understand each other! So there's a saying that "One dialect in every 5 Li(25 km)"
Comment from : Yuanxun

Unfortunatelythe Most dialects are disappearing
Comment from : Wang

In India we call tea as Chai clearly this came from mandarin
Comment from : Rational Samrat

I am a Chinese but I can understand only several dialect
Comment from : 周Sir

Mandarin is always a language, China have many other languages Just like English is the common of the western world
Comment from : SCX1718U

Idk where that Wu girl is from but if that was Shanghainese , her pronunciation is atrocious
Comment from : Gin356a

China has more language than all language spoken in the entire Europe 💀
Comment from : 我 ·做乜柒

Don't let this video fool you China has ONE language MandarinbrAnyone who doesn't speak Mandarin will be persecuted by the party
Comment from : MeowO_O

Excuse me! Taiwan isn't part of China
Comment from : Richard Orr

I’m Taiwanese and view Chinese as a language with an alphabetical system called 注音
Comment from : Some Whole

Mandarin is not actually established in modern China It became the main official language of the country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty It has been more than five hundred years
Comment from : 陈陳

Not very accurate to say that no goverment concerned about it before 1949
Comment from : Charlie Zhan

As a middle age Malaysian Chinese, Cantonese is my mother tongue and Mandarin is my second language I'm well versed in bothbrbrThe sad fact is that Chinese dialects are dying here in Malaysia Chinese parents here are not teaching their kids of their dialects anymore because Mandarin is considered the 'future Chinese language' and the most widely spoken Chinese presently This is also happening in Guangdong province China - the hometown of Cantonese
Comment from : Au Kum Yuen

就我家来说，我家庭就四种不同发音，三种语类
Comment from : IUOk

Because countries like Mongolia, Tibet, and Uighur are occupied regions, people and nations around the world so causally talk about these nations and their languages and cultures with no regard and respect for history and the lives lost in the illegal invasion and occupation Sad that the language like Tibetan, which was once listed as an Indo-European language and, more restrictively, a Tibeto-Burman languages from the perspective of their grammar system and syntax today respectively gets labelled today under "Sino-Tibetan language" despite the two sharing no linguistic traits or characteristics This is called "cultural genocide" and we are all party to this
Comment from : TeeJay

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Comment from : Seal King

The girl pretends to speak Shanghainese is just a fake She has a really bad pronounciation, dude
Comment from : 汉贼不两立

Olly: "(Min speakers) can't understand each other from one village to the next" brMe, a Taiwanese Hokkien speaker: I've heard that too, but is that true? brOlly: shows the Medan Hokkien clip at 3:51 brMe: WTH I can't understand a word she says
Comment from : Kinra

6:14 oh my god that was so beautiful i almost cried, I'm Polish so like no way i can understand literally anything, but for some reason this singing really touched me lol
Comment from : UnnTHPS

In India we have more than 19000 dialects you will observe in every 10 km of distance you will see changes in way of speaking
Comment from : anand jha

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Comment from : Drunk Hard

唐朝以前的古中原人都逃到江南了，br現在黃河流域的多是北方入侵的遊牧民族後裔。
Comment from : 吳碳能 tw

中國的語言種類密度跟歐洲差不多。br沒有特別多。br德語跟英語就像，粵語跟閩南語的關係。
Comment from : 吳碳能 tw

I speak Cantonese (from my parents coming from Hong Kong), Hakka (my ancestry) and Mandarin (from learning)
Comment from : Star1234

mandarin to chinese is just like english to the rest of world, it's a common used language
Comment from : Joshua B

Chinese is a language with several accents, while written language is exactly the same one
Comment from : will wang

Well, the Min dialect, it's also called Minnan in Taiwan, beacause the people who speak this dialect, many of there ancestors arrived in South-western TaiwanbrWhile Hakka is still Hakka
Comment from : 黃凱淯

there may not be the same words Fore example the clip on the word umbrella, the Cantonese speaker speaks a single syllabus word "遮“ which in standard Mandarin, carries the meaning on "shielding someone or something" This word is used by the cantonese speakers to refer to umbrella
Comment from : Cheng Wee Chia

Because the China you see today is a country that many completely different parts were forcibly unified by the dictators/governors, so you can hear so many different dialects, they are not even different accents
Comment from : Min Zhang

The concept is China is kind of like Europe, and mandarin is the simplified language to communicate through the whole country, kinds of like English, but simplified to frequently used words
Comment from : 陳小明

CCP: there's only one China, one Chinese
Comment from : CY YEUNG

BTW is Indian a language? Did anyone asked this?
Comment from : cchou5

I see all those different languages & dialects are "cultural relics" & it should not go extinct, all of them are treasure of humanbrbrI happy with how Chinese ppl now days using mandarin as official language for Chinese speaking and still speak local dialects in different placesbrbr1 of my Japanese friends from okinawa told me now days less and less ppl speak ryukyu dialects mostly speak standard japanese He said maybe another hundred years might totally gone And this sounds really sad to me
Comment from : Naoki Maeda

It’s just different dialects of Han Chinese language (Mandarin), but still the same language that passed down from the Shang Dynasty Bone Oracle Scripts 3500 years ago Today a Chinese literate person can still look at those ancient text and read them, as long as you give him the character conversation tablebrDialects developed over time in the era prior to telecommunications as people living in distant locations cannot hear how others speakbrbrNon-Han minority groups might speak other languages, but that’s a small group
Comment from : WSOJ