Chinese only speak 'Chinese'? Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in China Other Than 'Chinese'! 

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

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 !

@@tupoleviTaiwanese shut up

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

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

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.

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 !

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

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.

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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❤

​@@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。

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

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

@@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.

He just listed the top 10.

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.

你不要在此误导别人了，希望你无恶意。

不止 我汉族的方言都有近千种

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.

My pleasure!

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

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

Hokkienese is a dialect of the Chinese, same as Mandarin

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

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.

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.

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

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

厉害👍

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

SueC 你也真厉害👍

@@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*

@@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.)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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)

@@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.

Learn to read.

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

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Nope

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.

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

美国的杨氏苗族历史很曲折啊，希望不要再有战争

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谢谢

这里强调身份应该用“我不是中国籍”

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....

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

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

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

茄子蛋EggPlantEgg - 浪子回頭

@@christan286 謝謝

nope.

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？

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。

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

Mongolians have their own language too.

@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?

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@@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?

@@smartwork366 probably shadow banned

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.

歌名：海阔天空 歌手：beyond

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

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

@@indiangum4691 Under A Vast Sky

Which one ??? Be clear !

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

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

@@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

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

China always good, and government always make citizens safe and happy. Never any bad, and never any accidents.

@@andrewczski1969 do you know what happened on June 4th 1989? If you answer correctly you are not a bot.

@@dr.python Tiannamen Square massacre

@@dr.python Sorry, forgot to add the /s. We're on the same side.

@@andrewczski1969 lol I've always been bad with sarcsm

Since then, the Uyghurs living in China become Chinese.

nope

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.

Your belief is incorrect.

Except for a few minorities who have their own speaking and writing languages, the Chinese language includes hundreds of local dialects but only one form of written language. The written Chinese language was standardized more than 2,000 years ago during the Chin Dynasty, but not the speaking dialects. In other words, one Chinese character can be pronounced differently using different dialects but generally has the same meaning. Also, throughout Chinese history, different tribes of Chinese get to keep their own dialects and cultures. Chinese have been made up of many different tribes or ethnicities for more than 5,000 years, and China is a multi-ethnic country to begin with. Every tribe and ethnic group has been living in the same country for more than thousands of years peacefully most of the time.

Most Chinese languages don't have a written form, and the ones that do (like Cantonese) aren't intelligible to non-speakers of that language. The vast majority of speakers of all Sinitic languages also speak Mandarin, so sometimes they might write their language, but in a Mandarin way.

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