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The Chinese Language(s)

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The Different Types of Chinese Languages

At the time of the communist revolution, only about 40% of Chinese could understand Mandarin. Today it's over 90% who speak it as a first or second language. Estimates put the number of different Chinese languages and dialects into the hundreds. Different Chinese dialects can be totally different from each other, yet they're called dialects not languages.

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