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  • When talking about languages of China, most people often think of Chinese or Mandarin, like it's the sole language of China. However, there are over 80 languages being spoken in China and 30 languages have their own writing systems. In this video, we gonna be talking about "Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in China Other Than Mandarin"!
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  • @MarttiSuomivuori
    @MarttiSuomivuori Рік тому +156

    Thank you, Alex. In the West, it is difficult to understand the scale of China. We have opinions, but we know very little. Your work could bring us closer to peace if only people could listen with an open mind. Money talks too loud in most information channels, and we hear what the hegemony wants us to hear.
    Your eyes are open, and your voice is honest. Can you please everybody? Nobody can.
    I hope you enjoy your coffee.

    • @tupolevi
      @tupolevi Рік тому +1

      DOH! He is posing a lot of misleading information and you are still appraising him for it.

    • @weizhang2834
      @weizhang2834 Рік тому +6

      In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !

    • @weizhang2834
      @weizhang2834 Рік тому

      @@tupoleviTaiwanese shut up

    • @ugrmusti7842
      @ugrmusti7842 Рік тому

      Don't believe Alex he is Chinese communist government propaganda man

    • @xelkim9666
      @xelkim9666 Рік тому +6

      Hi OP, just want to show appreciation to your well articulated comment🙏👍

  • @xelkim9666
    @xelkim9666 Рік тому +24

    Such a great video. So many dialects in China, I dont think I will understand them all but I just find pure joy that I speak Mandarin and can communicate with 1.4billion Chinese. Just being able to connect with so many people is such a happy feeling.❤🇨🇳from🇭🇰

  • @seechunchong9876
    @seechunchong9876 Рік тому +65

    Excellent video, Alex & very informative too. Great songs/singers too. Well done. Thanks for sharing.
    Btw, I am from Malaysia where many people, throughout its history, had come from different parts of China (mainly the south) and settled down here in this small country. Hence, a large number of Malaysian Chinese can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Fujianese (Hokkien), Hakka, some Hainanese etc., of course, the Malaysian national language, Bahasa Malaysia (similar to Indonesia Bahasa) and English. Some can even speak Tamil and some Indians, Malays, others can speak some of those Chinese language mentioned and other languages as well. Truly interesting, especially learning how to sing or listening to songs in other languages. Cheers.

  • @littlestone1541
    @littlestone1541 Рік тому +84

    Such diverse and beautiful languages, China's complexity and cultural wealth always amazes me. Thanks for your wonderful videos.

    • @jivvyjack7723
      @jivvyjack7723 Рік тому +8

      Even more amazing is that the chinese dialects shared a written script. So even if spoken, they don't understand each other, they can communicate using the written script. More than 2000 years ago, that Qin Shi Huang Ti had real foresight.

    • @weizhang2834
      @weizhang2834 Рік тому +2

      In Shanghai , foreigners, particularly those westerners, Americans, yelled at the delivery bicycle a lot of times, they use “dirty words “ insults them , just because the delivery bicycles went to the sidewalk, and they wears a earphones and enjoy their music 🎼, insults the delivery guys didn’t follow the rules, they forgot or just didn’t learn the history 150 years ago westerners did in Shanghai , this is absolutely disgusting and not in 1840 !

    • @dragondescendant1
      @dragondescendant1 Рік тому +3

      @@jivvyjack7723 Japanese people also understand Chinese writings although spoken language is completely different.

    • @L-K-K
      @L-K-K 11 місяців тому +1

      I used to think that it's nust 1 written language with different pronunciations (dialects). But lately I've learned actually they have different roots & although they may have borrowed the same written characters, sometimes it's just to phonetically capture their native spoken language. Also the different words & phrases used for the same thing... 🤯 I don't see this as bad though. It's very interesting. Agree that being able to communicate with a common language is important for common good & personal advancement. But the diversity of additional languages is beautiful & inspiring. I hope the different groups will preserve these local cultures as well. It would be a great loss to the country / humanity to lose these individual flavours that make life so interesting, even as everyone modernise & achieve a more comfortable standard of living.

  • @xiaoq8329
    @xiaoq8329 Рік тому +89

    Actually, they're over 300 languages spoken in China. They're all Chinese dialects/languages. Mandarin Chinese is definitely not the only spoken language. It's just taught at schools as a common language (Mandarin's literal translation is a common language) to make sure all Chinese can understand each other. The 56 ethnic groups all have their own dialects, some have more within one ethnic group, despite the regional dialects shared by many ethnicities. For instance, in Yunnan province where 26 ethnic groups co-exist, more than 30 languages are spoken.

    • @achtungbaby2009
      @achtungbaby2009 11 місяців тому +4

      He just listed the top 10.

    • @michael511128
      @michael511128 11 місяців тому +4

      There is no Mandarin in China, only in America. We call it Chinese in China. In schools it is called Putonghua meaning Common Language like you said it. BTW, Taiwan does have two official language: Official Language-Chinese; National Language-Mandarin. It’s the only place in China where Mandarin actually exist. The KMT used a foreign word to call its language. What a shame, what a joke.

    • @user-m11r49xy
      @user-m11r49xy 11 місяців тому +2

      你不要在此误导别人了,希望你无恶意。

    • @yuWu-bt5gr
      @yuWu-bt5gr 11 місяців тому

      不止 我汉族的方言都有近千种

    • @fargr5926
      @fargr5926 10 місяців тому

      I am from Shandong. One thing I remember that when I was in high school, one of my classmates is from a village about 60 miles away, I am sure we both speak local dialects, but I honestly couldn't understand him. His dialect is closer to another city's.

  • @colonylaser4860
    @colonylaser4860 Рік тому +31

    Thank you Alex. Watching your videos reminds me of how complex the Chinese culture is, not just the language. But here in the West there are no end of "China experts" on tv or social media, that don't know the language (much less the many dialects), never spend time in China, don't know a single Chinese person except a few ABC who don't speak their mother tongue, and only learned about China in books written by white guys who don't speak the language either, or tv shows with all the familiar trappings of prejudice and stereotypes.

  • @arafsadventures
    @arafsadventures Рік тому +24

    I'm enjoying your videos 👌 Hello from China 👋

  • @san3570
    @san3570 Рік тому +19

    Alex,is a guy that tried to let people knows his understanding of China instead of what political propaganda news spreading around, but never lived nor understand theirs cultures. Good work Alex.

  • @Tube4mj
    @Tube4mj Рік тому +26

    Great video Alex. This is very informative in helping to understand the numerous languages and dialects of the people and regions and diversity of China. Thank you for your well researched and produced video. Cheers from Australia.

  • @user-vc9zd6jm6u
    @user-vc9zd6jm6u Рік тому +33

    My mother tongue is Hokkien,but I can also speak Chinese Mandarin very well

    • @dragondescendant1
      @dragondescendant1 Рік тому +6

      I know many Hokkienese can speak Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien as well.

    • @user-vc9zd6jm6u
      @user-vc9zd6jm6u Рік тому +3

      @@dragondescendant1 But our accents aren't so straight, they're cute accents

    • @derrickchu8201
      @derrickchu8201 Рік тому

      Hokkienese is a dialect of the Chinese, same as Mandarin

    • @aldenteh9412
      @aldenteh9412 11 місяців тому

      In Malaysia, some Hokkien speakers can speak Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka and Mandarin fluently. With addition of National language and International language.

    • @thomashom7514
      @thomashom7514 11 місяців тому

      I am amazed by the variety of dialects spoken by Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese. Because of the diversity of dialects and languages concentrated in such a small area, one cannot help being conversant. It may not be fluent but enough to communicate. I met a Chinese taxi driver in Singapore who spoke almost 8 dialects and languages. This is not highly unusual.

  • @MindofYǒng
    @MindofYǒng Рік тому +37

    Thanks for sharing the knowledge, Alex. I'm a Chinese descendant from Indonesia that still can speak Hakka, this is the first time I heard the Gan dialect as you mention very close to Hakka. Well...from what I learn so far was, Gan has been categories as Northern Hakka and Meixian Southern Hakka. CMIIW.

    • @stoneandrain1234
      @stoneandrain1234 Рік тому +5

      赣语并不是客家话,这两种方言是并行的。江西省中部和北部讲赣语,南部的赣州讲客家话,广东的东北部和福建的西南部也讲客家话。不过在中国,客家话内部的差异特别大,在东南亚的客家人大多都是广东客家人的后裔。希望对你有所帮助❤

    • @zhidongchen8759
      @zhidongchen8759 Рік тому +3

      ​@@stoneandrain1234 一般认为赣语和客家话在唐末五代开始分化,两宋各自完成独立(现在依旧有人认为客赣是同一种方言)。江西话主要是江西中部、北部,湖南一部,安徽西南一隅。

    • @MindofYǒng
      @MindofYǒng Рік тому +3

      @@stoneandrain1234 Xie xie for the information, my late grandpa was come from Guangdong.

    • @MindofYǒng
      @MindofYǒng Рік тому +1

      @@zhidongchen8759 Interesting. I like history, especially about my ancestor.

    • @zhidongchen8759
      @zhidongchen8759 Рік тому

      @@MindofYǒng My grandpa(外祖父,the father of my mom) came from the Malaysian Islands when my mom was in 8 in 1959 or 1960. They were arranged on the farm for the overseas Chinese by government, and regarded as public officials of the country.

  • @mhf1979
    @mhf1979 10 місяців тому +4

    Alex 謝謝你 我是新加坡的潮州人 謝謝你的視頻讓我看到不一樣的地方方言

  • @LW78321
    @LW78321 Рік тому +12

    Such an informative and interesting video! I am from the Fujian province and even in neighbouring towns the dialect is different!

  • @KinLee919
    @KinLee919 Рік тому +16

    Note: even inside mandarin there are so many dialects, and some dialects can be conside as different languages by some experts, like my mother tongue, most experts believe it's a dialects under mandarin called 江淮官话(jianghuai mandarin)but some experts think it's a independent language called 淮语(huai). Truth is a northerner who speak standard mandarin can't understand a single word what im saying.

    • @treesmoveslowly
      @treesmoveslowly Рік тому

      Tbh, mandarin development is more recent so besides jianghuai, most mandarin is the same language. Even Jin is closer to standard mandarin than jianghuai in personal opinion.
      While hokkien has many dialects that are not mutually intelligible and are different languages.

  • @peakserv
    @peakserv Рік тому +9

    Great video of the different languages spoken in China.
    Well researched.

  • @dyong888
    @dyong888 Рік тому +10

    Great video! Thank you for putting in examples of each Chinese dialect / language. It really helps. Keep it Up!

  • @guillotineblade999
    @guillotineblade999 Рік тому +7

    .. All chinese languages are chinese. However, Mandarin is considered the universal language of Chinese speaking people.

  • @benjamin-o7h
    @benjamin-o7h 11 місяців тому +8

    Hi Alex, thank you for mentioning the Southern Min (闽南)Language. Taiwanese had Min Language as their official Dialact (台语)and we had speakers all over in Malaysia and Singapore too.

  • @webysoe9652
    @webysoe9652 Рік тому +11

    Same as in Indonesia ,there are hundreds of languages and tribes ,BUT everybody speaks Indonesian language !!!!

    • @match2012
      @match2012 11 місяців тому

      I think it is important for the standard language in one country since the communication between citizens is necessary.

  • @skgan7383
    @skgan7383 Рік тому +10

    Many thanks Alex. 感谢分享。👍

  • @ehjo4904
    @ehjo4904 Рік тому +19

    mandarin is the chinese language which has been favoured in China . But cantonese hakka , Jin ,minnan are also chinese!

  • @petercua6158
    @petercua6158 Рік тому +8

    Informative & lovely👍👏👌

  • @hendrik7502
    @hendrik7502 Рік тому +5

    Very educational Alex. Thanks for the information.

  • @chanwu5615
    @chanwu5615 11 місяців тому +5

    We have one national language Mandarin and our characters which can communicate throughout the whole country

  • @genchwanlim2970
    @genchwanlim2970 10 місяців тому +6

    Min language is one of the most spoken language in Singapore and Malaysia as well

  • @easonqin1931
    @easonqin1931 Рік тому +19

    I can speak Mandarin, Zhuang Ethnic language壮话, Mao Nan Ethnic language毛南话, Gui Liu language (Official language of the ancient southwest area桂柳话), Cantonese广东话🥰🥰🥰

    • @alexfromxinjiang
      @alexfromxinjiang  Рік тому +3

      厉害👍

    • @SueC2558
      @SueC2558 11 місяців тому

      Thumb 👍to you. I too speak four ethnic languages. Mandarin, Cantonese, Teo chew and Khmer?!? 🤔😜😅😉Oh! One more aussie 😊.

    • @jimshaw9034
      @jimshaw9034 11 місяців тому

      SueC 你也真厉害👍

    • @yogawan3805
      @yogawan3805 11 місяців тому +1

      @@alexfromxinjiang I think you mistaken "language" and "Dialect".
      Most of you mentioned here is 8 major Dialect of China.
      Even IF 8 Dialects of China can't understand each other using speaking but they will understand each other using *Hanzi / Chinese Characters*

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      @@SueC2558 I am not as good as you, can manage partially 3 Chinese dialects. I can speak and listen well in Cantonese because I was born in HK, some Mandarin ( a few lessons from school in HK 50 years ago, and am self-taught), but can only listen to Teochew not really speak because my parents speak Teochew. My parents will talk to me using Teochew and Cantonese and I reply with Cantonese only. I love Teochew opera - I watch it almost daily on youtube with my mom in NYC. I love Cantonese opera too but not my mom.)

  • @rubensanchez1797
    @rubensanchez1797 11 місяців тому +3

    the official Chinese is the Manderin.... others were regional dialecs...myself born in Guangzhou, Guangdong province . I left China when I was 20 in 1970x , due to my native guangzhou dialec, when I travel to China, amazingly whenever I spoke manderin & they knew I come from GuangDong.. haha, now I came from Miami, Florida, USA .

  • @wsmithe2209
    @wsmithe2209 Рік тому +4

    Just to clarify a little bit here. Mandarin is the official language in China, other spoken languages are considered dialect except Tibet, Uyghur and Mogolian. Writing is the same except Tibet, Xinjiang and Mogolian, pronunciation is different between provinces and cities.

  • @zhzmtz
    @zhzmtz 11 місяців тому +1

    Great quality video, Alex! Thanks for sharing!👍

  • @choifayue9848
    @choifayue9848 Рік тому +3

    the best song to end the vid, great illustration for the complex diversity of the Chinese languages PEACE

  • @cmaven4762
    @cmaven4762 11 місяців тому +2

    hen hao ...
    This was very informative, and your English is quite clear and well pronounced. I don't think I'll ever learn any of these eight main languages, but I hope my Mandarin can eventually be as clear as your English!

  • @kamwaichan8048
    @kamwaichan8048 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for your information, it's very educational 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @beproudasian8279
    @beproudasian8279 Рік тому +20

    Very informative. Keep up the good work, Alex. 👍

  • @LemyAng
    @LemyAng Рік тому +2

    Good job Alex! Keep going 👍

  • @laurastui3228
    @laurastui3228 Рік тому +13

    Alex, Tibetan is not the official language in Tibet. Official language in Tibet is Mandarin. Basically, Tibetan is the most used local language there.

    • @dragondescendant1
      @dragondescendant1 Рік тому +5

      I think Mandarin is official dialect/language for all of China.

  • @JO-et2ir
    @JO-et2ir Рік тому +10

    Just like the the Romance languages of Europe having common origins, all the Chinese dialects have a common origin. The Europeans have separate nations based a lot on the way they speak. They also have regional languages or dialects. China has been unified for so long by history, writing, and culture. If classified strictly the way European languages are classified, Chinese dialects could be classified as languages based on how verbally mutual intelligible they are. Just like in the UK, people many times cannot understand each other from different areas. In the UK, they are speaking a heavy accented English and not another language.

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому +1

      The title of the video says "Top 10 Most Spoken Languages". They absolutely are languages. Each of these languages also has its own dialects.

  • @cherylparkin8094
    @cherylparkin8094 11 місяців тому +1

    I really like this show, interesting that so many languages & how they are migrated & adopted
    I also get the general knowledge about the tone & sound of different dialogue
    Thank you!

  • @jacintochua6885
    @jacintochua6885 10 місяців тому +2

    There are more than 56 ethnic groups in Chiha and all still use their own dialect., have their traditional costumes and traditional practices. Mandarin is spoken by the majority Hans and designated as official language.

  • @jsyo9639
    @jsyo9639 Рік тому +1

    Great information I learned today

  • @lhwong7906
    @lhwong7906 Рік тому +2

    Incredible video,

  • @adanphu4325
    @adanphu4325 Рік тому +5

    Nahhhhhhhhh 🦢 I speak Ngai ( Hakka ) and Cantonese 🦣 It's like others learning different kinds of languages 🪳 Hans can teach others Mandarin too! 🦋 MY grandparents came from China and they spoke Ngai ( Hakka ) 🦢🦢

    • @ssenh
      @ssenh 10 місяців тому +1

      I am Chinese from Vietnam. I speak Cantonese (with the Guanxi accent). I can speak and understand Ngai but my Hakka friends could not understand the Ngai from the Guanxi region. It is my opinion that every Chinese dialect should be classified as a language. Chinese is like Latin. If Spanish, Portuguese and Italians are derivatives of Latin and each are considered a language so should the other Chinese dialects. In fact, people who speaks Spanish can understand more or less Italian and Portuguese words and understand the gist. However, it is nearly impossible for a Cantonese to verbally communicate with Hokkien, Gan or Wu, unless it is in written form.

  • @wongcy713
    @wongcy713 Рік тому +3

    The most innovative and creative Hakka songs are from Malaysia. The Hakka song shown so out

  • @kongkong1364
    @kongkong1364 11 місяців тому +3

    interesting that the min dialects are grouped as one coz the 闽南 dialects (i.e. sounthern min) & 闽北 dialects (nothern Min) are completely mutually unintelligible to each other. my wife's parents came from southern fujian and speak a minnan dialect that other hokkiens and taiwanese can easily understand while my paternal grandparents came from fuzhou, the capital city of fujian province, but the fujian/hokkien people can't understand a simple sentence spoken in it. it's always interesting to ask the different speakers how to write a word spoken in their language, starting with pronounces like me, or 他/她 (him/her). lots of fun

  • @ahkoy973
    @ahkoy973 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Alex

  • @damian_madmansnest
    @damian_madmansnest Місяць тому

    Great video, thanks!
    The kid at 1:48 is from Yulshul so he probably sings in Kham Tibetan, not Lhasa.

  • @bigranp6327
    @bigranp6327 Рік тому +5

    The Capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is Nanning not Liuzhou.
    And the last seven are dialects not languages.

  • @cherylparkin8094
    @cherylparkin8094 11 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @joekerr9036
    @joekerr9036 11 місяців тому +2

    The first emperor did a good job to unite the different Chinese tribes under one race.

  • @aldenteh9412
    @aldenteh9412 11 місяців тому +4

    One of the Min language variants in South East Asia is Penang Hokkien. Min dialect is hard to master due to its pronounciation is far different from mandarin pronounciation with addition of nasal tones and multiple tones. But Penang Hokkien uses words never heard in Min language, making it more harder to master. Penang hokkien out of all hokkien variants is the most difficult, we can understand Min dialects but not a single Hokkien speaker can understand us clearly.
    Unfortunately, Penang Hokkien is at the brink of extinction, schools do not allow students to speak dialects, and there is not written pronounciation for this dialect. I myself learned dialects through my grandparents, basically a dialect passed down through generational speech.

    • @kongkong1364
      @kongkong1364 11 місяців тому

      penang hokkien is a rojak dialect as a result of historical circumstances

  • @Aramsa-Khan
    @Aramsa-Khan Рік тому +16

    This video clip is misleading about the Chinese language. There is only one Chinese language which is known as putong hua. The so-called languages mentioned in the video are actually referred to as dialects. Each of these dialects are further known as sub-dialects, because over time the tone and ascent evolved. It is like the English language of the various Anglophone countries each evolving to the own accent after many years of development. This is why the collective west is trying to capitalise on these dialects to cause problems for China. Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language.

    • @silmerusse
      @silmerusse Рік тому +6

      It's the other way around. Guan(Mandarin), Wu, Yue, Min, Hakka, Jin etc are indeed different languages because they are mutually unintelligible although they are all descendents of ancient Chinese. It's solely for political reasons to regard them same language.

    • @TAL142
      @TAL142 Рік тому +5

      The video is about the Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in China. China actually has 302 languages but linguists have divided Chinese into eight to 10 main language groups, with each group having several sub-dialects. Just like France, English, Spanish all essentially evolved from Latins. Straightly speaking even Vietnamese, Japanese, Koreans and many other neighbor languages were evolved from Chinese languages in China.

    • @treesmoveslowly
      @treesmoveslowly Рік тому

      Mandarin is a singular language. Jin is a dialect of Mandarin. Yue is a language subfamily in sinitic family like mandarin, and cantonese and taishanese are two different languages in Yue language family.

    • @jzheng7324
      @jzheng7324 Рік тому +1

      First of all, dialects ARE languages, or say the subsets of languages. Mandarin (aka "Pu Tong Hua" today, literally means "the common language") is the CURRENT official language of China. Back in the days, China also had "JiangHuai Mandarin"(江淮官话)and "SouthWestern Mandarin"(西南官话), or more if I was not acknowledged.
      "Thanks to the first emperor, China is United under one language, the Chinese language".
      This is false. What the first emperor (aka 秦始皇) had done was called "书同文、车同轨", literally means "writing with the same scripts, riding on the same tracks", which was meant to standardize the writing system and logistic system throughout the country.

    • @BenjiSun
      @BenjiSun 11 місяців тому

      people think different Chinese languages are dialectal because for the most part the Han has one common written language. except if you look tell a non-Cantonese speaker to look at the Yue language pages, they will have varying degrees of difficulty trying to understand what's written there in Cantonese Chinese. That's not simply a dialectal difference. nevermind the non-sinitic language groups. hell, most native-purely Canton Cantonese speakers will have a difficult time parsing their neighbor's Siyi dialect if it's too heavily, famously spoken by Taishanese actor Karl Maka most younger Hong Kong kids don't even know who he is.

  • @libanwarsame5428
    @libanwarsame5428 10 місяців тому +1

    These languages might be different from each other. But they all sound Chinese to foreign ears like mine😂.

  • @Naughty12229
    @Naughty12229 Рік тому +2

    Love china from India ❤❤❤
    🇨🇳💞🇮🇳

    • @andrewczski1969
      @andrewczski1969 Рік тому

      Today, Modi came to America and massaged Biden's balls very well.

  • @elboon_80
    @elboon_80 11 місяців тому +1

    Hey Alex, can you provide the name of the two singers of the Zhuang language? Would be great to find them on youtube music or spotify! ;) thanks for the good job!

  • @videosdematt
    @videosdematt Рік тому

    Alex, are you also posting this video on B zhan platform?

  • @ericloo6576
    @ericloo6576 11 місяців тому +1

    The founding prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew is a Hakka and educated in England. His "Speak Mandarin Campaign" policy started in 1979 had made the Hakka dialect gone extinct in Singapore. Now the majority Hokkien dialect is heading towards extinction too.

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      It is not Lee's fault. Many Teochewnese in Singapore still speak Teochew and perform Teochew opera, just like those live in Thailand and China. It's up to the new generation of each culture whether they want to preserve their own unique culture. It's important for all Chinese able to speak Mandarin so they can communicate with each other.

  • @kio5614
    @kio5614 11 місяців тому

    Good video, but is it more like different dialects rather than languages?

  • @rongwu-sj9ws
    @rongwu-sj9ws 8 місяців тому

    After watching this video I realized that the Chinese language is really quite complicated. Take me for example, where I grew up and live, 100 kilometers away, if they all spoke dialects, they wouldn't understand each other. According to my classmates, the situation in their hometown is even more complicated, and the most complicated situation is that two villages 10 kilometers away from each other will not understand each other if they both speak only dialects. China would be unimaginable without the ideological and stable Chinese language and the so-called "official language".
    I was pleasantly surprised by the end of the video, Beyond's "Sea, Air, Sky". I've probably heard this song hundreds of times in Cantonese.

  • @jacintochua6885
    @jacintochua6885 11 місяців тому +1

    There are multiple dialects. But the official language is Mandarin, spoken by vast majority. This 8s v same in all countries.

  • @BellaChou
    @BellaChou 11 місяців тому

    很喜欢你的频道

  • @dragondescendant1
    @dragondescendant1 Рік тому +4

    Many of the linguistics described are dialects of China, not languages. i.e. Suzhou, Cantonese. And Mandarin is China official dialect. Beautiful China.❤❤❤❤❤

    • @MsOpineminded
      @MsOpineminded Рік тому +3

      They SHOULD be properly classified as languages NOT dialects. Particularly a good number are not mutually intelligible.
      West gets confused bc China's language system does not fit into their own cultural lens.
      The unifiying element of 'Chinese" is the script which is a pitctographic system design principally to allow communication across a vast territory through characters regardless of the language spoken.
      This is why West gets themselves confused.
      Spoken, many of these so called "dialects" are not mutually understandable.
      If anything, Latin languages are as much in common as are Germanic root languages as various Chinese "dialects"
      The problem with the West then is they believe they have diversity and that China is a monolithic block.
      Culturally if you looked at Europe, Church is a church much as Temple in China is a temple. The difference is the Europeans prefer a racial/language understanding of the Nation state where China's understanding is of a vast collective of people with similar historical experience over.
      Han are not as homogenious as many in the West prefer to portray.
      Those in West who harp on about cultural genocide of the minorities should do well to consider that even after so many millenia of intergration. Han speakers still practise their various (particularly Southern) languages.
      The South being mountainous contributes to the varieties of language but cultural expression, distinctiveness and identities are hard to eradicate.
      Recasting these Han languages properly as languages not dialect may help the West mentally shift their otherwise straight jacketed cultural lens and understanding of languages and what is Chinese (in itself handicap by it being a victim of the vagaries of the English language)

    • @dragondescendant1
      @dragondescendant1 Рік тому +1

      @@MsOpineminded not true, Mandarin aka common dialect of China, one writing system with multiply pronunciations. One country one language. European, even most languages were originated from Greece or Latin, Europe has over 30 countries, every country has their own language, different spelling, different pronunciation altogether. When traveling to China, great majority of the people would know Mandarin.

    • @dragondescendant1
      @dragondescendant1 Рік тому

      Learn to read.

    • @kongkong1364
      @kongkong1364 11 місяців тому

      侬戆卵了伐

  • @danielwong2333
    @danielwong2333 Рік тому +2

    Alex please correct me if i am wrong, that mandarin/Chinese is the only national language of China, spoken by almost all Chinese, while that of the provincial, county or regional so called 'languages' are more appropriate to refer them as dialects of their respective regions, counties or provinces, eg hakka or teochew are regional dialects not as language.

    • @malagebide
      @malagebide Рік тому +3

      人民币上就印有5种,另外还有像东巴文,彝文等等也是有文字的

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому +1

      That is incorrect. If two people can't understand each other, they are speaking different languages. People who only speak Mandarin cannot have a conversation with someone who only speaks Hakka. But each of these languages do have many dialects.

  • @bellybutton6138
    @bellybutton6138 Рік тому +4

    Interesting vid. I am aware that there are many dialects in China but not the top 10.

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      It's the top 10 dialect GROUPS and a representative dialect of each group.

  • @user-ep1rm5ex7i
    @user-ep1rm5ex7i 11 місяців тому +1

    No Chinese will learn dialects, only Mandarin can communicate, and many young people have stopped speaking dialects.

  • @rustysickle2528
    @rustysickle2528 9 місяців тому

    thanks for ending the video with the most terrific song ever written in the history of the Chinese people! ❤ Kakui 🤟

  • @lailai7919
    @lailai7919 Рік тому +2

    What is the name of the Southern Ming song at 11.39 ?

    • @christan286
      @christan286 3 місяці тому

      茄子蛋EggPlantEgg - 浪子回頭

  • @philyip4432
    @philyip4432 Місяць тому

    The First Emperor of China was able to unify the Chinese written language, but no one has been able to unify the Chinese spoken language since.

  • @beijing996
    @beijing996 Рік тому

    喜欢里面的歌曲😊

  • @andrewczski1969
    @andrewczski1969 Рік тому +2

    Chinese restaurant explosion: 31 dead. Alex, you never show your face anymore. Tell us what they did to you.

  • @user-im9kl6tt6g
    @user-im9kl6tt6g 11 місяців тому

    jin language can be widely said in neimenggu, shanxi and shaanxi. The olders actually don't speak mandarin, although they can understand mandarin

  • @williamwilliam
    @williamwilliam 11 місяців тому +1

    This is educational but each race should be given a bit of time to speak their own language in a normal everyday usage so that we can actually listen to how each language actually sounds like.

  • @teatree6228
    @teatree6228 Рік тому +1

    Hakka peoples originate from Mongolia, and occasionally some will have curly wavy hair and brown or even red hair!!!
    We have relatives who are Hakka chinese with wavy hair and there are rare hakka relatives with brownish and rare even more, i have seen red brown natural hair in Malaysia, chinese not mixed race

    • @xinyiquan666
      @xinyiquan666 Рік тому

      ns

    • @LoversParadiseX
      @LoversParadiseX Рік тому

      Nope

    • @Qingling
      @Qingling 11 місяців тому

      The Hakka did not originate from Mongolia. I am a Hakka myself. My ancestors migrated south from Henan Province. All the people in our area are Hakka speakers. Our physical features were distinctly different from those of modern Mongolians. And generally the skin is relatively white, the eyes are relatively large double eyelids, the pupil color is relatively light. The head is small. The skeleton is small. Spatula teeth. The teeth are relatively flat, rarely buck teeth or tiger teeth. The facial features are different from those of modern Mongolians. The hair is brown or black. No red hair. Our customs are closer to the ancient Han people.

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      There is no pure Chinese nor any human race is pure nowadays, except maybe some human tribes still living in isolated regions.

  • @gangliezhu
    @gangliezhu 10 місяців тому

    13:12 Wu dialect is the most beautiful Chinese dialect

  • @samccm1
    @samccm1 Рік тому +6

    Like your videos. Alex. My dialect is Cantonese.....I am not from China!

    • @KING-XINJIANG
      @KING-XINJIANG Рік тому

      这里强调身份应该用“我不是中国籍”

    • @momo5608
      @momo5608 Рік тому +5

      im hakka , im Malaysia Chinese.... my origin frm china .... ur not frm China but ur origin frm there...same as me .... dont try so hard to explain ur not CHINA ,,, Chinese will not exist if not migrant frm CHINA....

    • @kl9518
      @kl9518 Рік тому +1

      It's amazing how these languages, hakka, Cantonese, are still spoken in three to four generations of Chinese living abroad in Europe and America.

    • @kl9518
      @kl9518 Рік тому +1

      So beautiful, in culture and scenery.
      Great video Alex.

    • @winyup7271
      @winyup7271 Рік тому

      Vicky liew
      I’m also a Hakka Chinese born n raised in Thailand, took my mother back to her village twice in Meixian .

  • @lenalim5001
    @lenalim5001 10 місяців тому +1

    One National Language and many Dialects

  • @frankiechoi5591
    @frankiechoi5591 11 місяців тому

    HI Alex what's song name in 11:40

  • @Saichenyang
    @Saichenyang Рік тому +1

    Well, I belong to the Xan Miao Group and I'm 8th generation in Southeast Asia then to the USA after the Vietnam War. In modern day I called myself the "Hmong." My family or last name is Yang. My grand father told me that in our ethnic group whom last name is Yang, we have a symbolize or ban not to eat any kind of heart because it happen long ago since our ancestors were still in China. I don't know why, could anyone correct me. Thanks.

    • @malagebide
      @malagebide Рік тому +1

      美国的杨氏苗族历史很曲折啊,希望不要再有战争

  • @lilyfeng6598
    @lilyfeng6598 11 місяців тому +1

    It is one of our Chinese big problems. Only one kind of language can unify all Chinese. Egotistical attitude would automatically disappear.

  • @woori1264
    @woori1264 Рік тому

    what the title of the last song in cantonese?

    • @ericloo6576
      @ericloo6576 11 місяців тому

      The song was sang by Wong Ka Kui of group Beyond.

  • @user-dd8gd5ot6e
    @user-dd8gd5ot6e 11 місяців тому

    事实上,在中国使用汉字书写系统的诸多“语言”,应该被称为方言更为贴切,尽管如果使用拉丁字母标注时,发音有很大的不同,但语法通常都一致。
    In fact, many "languages" that use the Chinese writing system in China should be called dialects as well as. Although the pronunciation is very different when using Latin alphabet to instruct it, but the grammar is usually same.

    • @sammuell3100
      @sammuell3100 11 місяців тому

      我认为语系是说的语言,英文称spoken language. 比如粤语系的方言非常多,包括广州,佛山,台山,甚至广西玉林的方言。所以说语系是方言也不正确。

    • @user-ir6qw8cn7z
      @user-ir6qw8cn7z 10 місяців тому

      广东粤语区每个城市的粤语都有不同==离广州越远变化越大==@@sammuell3100

  • @indiangum4691
    @indiangum4691 11 місяців тому +1

    Someone help me. I need to fight that Cantonese song in the last clip

    • @user-pn6yo5cz3o
      @user-pn6yo5cz3o 11 місяців тому +1

      歌名:海阔天空 歌手:beyond

    • @indiangum4691
      @indiangum4691 11 місяців тому

      @@user-pn6yo5cz3o thanks but can you please write the names in English letters cause I can't read that

    • @indiangum4691
      @indiangum4691 11 місяців тому

      @@user-pn6yo5cz3o oh I think I found it. I wrote Cantonese song beyond and yeah I found it. Thank you so much

    • @user-pn6yo5cz3o
      @user-pn6yo5cz3o 11 місяців тому

      @@indiangum4691 Under A Vast Sky

  • @awaiskhan9329
    @awaiskhan9329 7 місяців тому

    Though its a great video, giving a deep insight into the chinese languages, you didnt meantion Mongilian and Korean language which are one of the 55 ethnicities in China.

  • @pitsanufangkaew
    @pitsanufangkaew Рік тому +1

    That's why China must have the logogram

  • @yseesun
    @yseesun 11 місяців тому +1

    Cantonese sure more than 120M, I can say tat all the "Chinese" in other country beside from mainland could or is saying Cantonese

  • @davidmoss2576
    @davidmoss2576 11 місяців тому

    4:25 sounds like Cantonese.

  • @dsgpops1120
    @dsgpops1120 11 місяців тому

    What about the Manchurian language?

  • @wendyshoowaiching4161
    @wendyshoowaiching4161 Рік тому +4

    Cantonese is most spoken after mandarin 1. Hong Kong 2. China - All mandarin speaker understand and able to speak 3. Malaysia 4. Singapore. The Cantonese singer should be on stage not in the street. Best singing

  • @paulli1535
    @paulli1535 10 місяців тому

    Alex, there is a difference between dialects 方言 and languages 语言. In your presentation, you mixed the two together. Except Tibetan Uygur and Zhuang, all others you listed as dialects 方言, not a different language from Mandarin.

    • @user-ih2zf5pv3n
      @user-ih2zf5pv3n 3 дні тому

      其实也没有那么明确,Spanish 和 Portuguise 的差异真的有吴语和粤语差异那么大么?如果像你的理解按照文字体系统一标准的话,罗曼语系都可以叫罗曼语的各个方言,反正用的都是罗马字母的演化体。但这其实会造成很多问题,比如越南语,使用的都是法语字母,他是法语语系么?中亚各国和蒙古说接近阿拉伯语和突厥语的语言,但用的都是西里尔字母,你能说他们就是俄语语系么?包括壮语,我自己是壮族人。但是壮语本身并没有文字系统,用的都是威妥玛拼音,这个到底又算什么呢?

  • @firstnamelastname6071
    @firstnamelastname6071 Рік тому

    Anyone knows what's the Hokkien song?

  • @worldview730
    @worldview730 7 місяців тому

    Very interesting & I'm not even Chinese

  • @derrickchu8201
    @derrickchu8201 Рік тому

    The Tibetan language, Uyghur language, and Mongolian language are real languages spoken by their corresponding ethnical groups, but Xiang, Haka, Gan, etc are dialects of Chinese, but not conflated with the former ones.

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому

      They are Sinitic langauges, NOT dialects. They are mutually unintelligible.

    • @derrickchu8201
      @derrickchu8201 Місяць тому

      @@artugert Don't pretend you know the Chinese language better than I do. Hokkien and Cantonese are just two of the dozens or hundreds of mutually unintelligible dialects in China

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому

      @@derrickchu8201 This has nothing to do with knowing any Chinese languages. I DO know linguistics better than you, as well as English. “Mutually unintelligible dialects” is an oxymoron.

    • @derrickchu8201
      @derrickchu8201 Місяць тому

      @@artugert Despite your claim that you know linguistics, you know very little about the relationship between Chinese dialects and the Chinese language, and you need to deepen your understanding of the relationship between the Chinese writing system and dialects before commenting. You don't know China at all.

    • @derrickchu8201
      @derrickchu8201 Місяць тому

      @@artugert I'm guessing you don't even know the basic knowledge that Chinese characters are monosyllabic words, and that the reason dialects within the Chinese language don't understand each other is because of variations in the pronunciation of the same words. Other than that, all dialects have exactly the same grammar.

  • @gilbertynchen
    @gilbertynchen 11 місяців тому

    Except Tibet and Uyghur language, all others should be classified as dialect instead of language.

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      Mongolians have their own language too.

  • @smartwork366
    @smartwork366 Рік тому +2

    Bro in china uyghur muslim are not in detention camp
    Uyghur muslim are happy or in camps
    Plz tell me about uyghur muslim condition & yours in xingyang province.

    • @mohammedkumar1862
      @mohammedkumar1862 Рік тому +1

      @twbacssi
      👇👇👇
      Fun Fact :
      If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !!
      Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum?
      Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof.
      However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China.
      How low would these people go?

    • @smartwork366
      @smartwork366 Рік тому

      Reply me

    • @smartwork366
      @smartwork366 Рік тому

      Your reply is not showing in comment

    • @mohammedkumar1862
      @mohammedkumar1862 Рік тому

      @@smartwork366
      👇👇👇
      Fun Fact :
      If there was even a drip of evidence that China had perpetrated the heinous crime against the Uyghurs muslim in Xinjiang, the US and its allies wouldn't have passed the chance to not convene a UN special session to crucify and embarrass China. !!
      Did the west dare to bring up this accusation (detention camps in Xinjiang) in an international forum?
      Of course not ! The US would only appear like a bitter fool to accuse China in the absence of even the slightest proof.
      However that did not stop the west from using immoral individuals and media to demonize China.
      How low would these people go?

    • @Placidzzz
      @Placidzzz Рік тому

      @@smartwork366 probably shadow banned

  • @adanphu4325
    @adanphu4325 Рік тому +2

    You need to look up the history of Xinjiang 🦢 It was settled on first by the red haired people and some other people and the Chinese protected them 🦃 The Uyghurs came and attacked often but the Chinese protected and helped the people there and even traded with the people there and they were getting a long so well 🐇
    Then the Uyghurs came from the north and attacked the red haired people and so on and the Chinese even helped the people in Xinjiang 🪳 The Uyghurs then conquered and took the lands then later on it was conquered by the Hans again 🐁 I am not sure what happened to the red haired people and the non Uyghurs people though but they and the Chinese were friends and the Chinese build outposts, towers, basically bases etc to helped them and traded with them and protected them

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      Since then, the Uyghurs living in China become Chinese.

  • @Placidzzz
    @Placidzzz Рік тому +4

    I believe those are considered as dialects.

    • @indeficit2
      @indeficit2 Рік тому +2

      nope

    • @Qingling
      @Qingling 11 місяців тому +1

      Not all are dialects, Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian, Miao, Hani, Bai, etc., they all have their own script, and this script is still used as a printed text in the local. So this does not refer to dialects, which are based on the use of the same language but pronounced in different tones.

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому

      Your belief is incorrect.

  • @frankng4574
    @frankng4574 Рік тому +1

    The characterization of language is incorrect. Many of them are dialects not language.

    • @ehjo4904
      @ehjo4904 Рік тому +1

      Which one ??? Be clear !

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому

      No, none of these are dialects, but each of these languages do have many dialects (all languages do).

  • @andrewmai1970
    @andrewmai1970 Рік тому +1

    About the Min dialect part, in fact, you are only talking about Minnan dialect, not all Fujian languages. Fujian's Fuzhou dialect and Putian dialect are different from Minnan Language, and the number of users is large.

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому

      It's the top 10 dialect GROUPS and a representative dialect of each group.

  • @kaihanglui
    @kaihanglui 11 місяців тому

    Now it is admitted that Tibetan is different from Chinese. Then why is Chinese group as Sino-Tibetan?

    • @artugert
      @artugert Місяць тому

      Sino-Tibetan is the name of the common ancestor of all Chinese and Tibetan languages, just like Indo-European is to Indian and European languages.

  • @michael511128
    @michael511128 11 місяців тому

    There is no Mandarin in China, only in America. We call it Chinese in China. In schools it is called Putonghua meaning Common Language. BTW, Taiwan does have two official language: Official Language-Chinese; National Language-Mandarin. It’s the only place in China where Mandarin actually exists. The KMT used a foreign word to call its language. What a shame, what a joke.

    • @PaulineMopskatze
      @PaulineMopskatze 4 місяці тому

      Mandarin is not joke!! Mandarin is russian word!!

  • @user-up2zu9ro2k
    @user-up2zu9ro2k 8 місяців тому

    This is wrong. We don't have a Chinese language, but the group of Chinese languages, which is a main branch of the big family of Chinese-Tibetan languages.

  • @davidmoss2576
    @davidmoss2576 Рік тому

    Are Teochew people consider ethnic minority or Han majority?

    • @stoneandrain1234
      @stoneandrain1234 Рік тому

      汉族

    • @hyc1266
      @hyc1266 11 місяців тому +1

      Teochew people write in Chinese, so they are Hans. Teochew is one of the hundreds of Chinese dialects.

    • @davidmoss2576
      @davidmoss2576 11 місяців тому

      @@hyc1266 Thank you. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all minorities in China write in common language?