Not so in Chinese. The most prominent example is probably Cantonese and Mandarin, which are both considered Chinese but are completely unintelligible to each other. It is also worth noting that ...

Discover the countries with the most 'living languages' – at number one is a nation that speaks more than 800 different dialects ...

More than just wedding emcees, they are timekeepers, guides, and custodians of age-old traditions. In Chinese culture, a dai ...

A father’s older brother is “bó bo” (Mandarin) or “bak fu” (Cantonese), his younger brother “shu shu” (Mandarin) or “suk suk” (Cantonese), and heaven forbid you confuse your “wài gōng/goai gung” ...

This means there are seven ways to pronounce the same Chinese words. The seven Chinese dialects spoken here are Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese and Guangxi, dialects spoken in ...

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uighur.