Overview
This left picture is the map of Chinese Linguistic Groups , from this map, you can see all of the major types of Chinese dialect, and how they distribute in China. According this map, we can find the Chinese can be separated by different area, like Northern, Eastern and Southwestern, are speaking Mandarin, and South area. And these dialect can be classified into seven major groups based on the total Han Chinese population of 950 million (Ramsey, 87), Mandarin, Wu, Yue (Cantonese), Min, Xiang, Kejia (Hakka),Gan. So I use this data and create the right pie graph, the percent of each dialect speaker. These language still different although they are classify as same dialect group.
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Phonemica, in this website, people can record and upload the stories told in their own dialect, and share it with others. Then everyone can know and hear it. If you are interested in the dialect now, why not go to this website and listen to the various dialects?
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