Languages of China

language group of the Sinitic languages

Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam

Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan

Turkic language spoken by Tatars

Turkic language

Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia

major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China

language spoken in Tajikistan

Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people

Tibeto-Burman language

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly romanized as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. Although Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety in linguistics, the term is often used more broadly to describe the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including varieties such as Taishanese, which have limited mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.

Tungusic language originating from Northeast China

variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian

Sinitic language

language family of Eurasia

primary branch of Chinese originating in Southern China

branch of the Min Chinese language

standard form of the Chinese language

any of various Tai languages used by the Zhuang people

Tungusic language spoken by the Evenks in Siberia

language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc)

branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China

group of Bodic languages spoken by Tibetans in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau and in northern areas of the Indian subcontinent

Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province

variety of Chinese spoken in northern China

Hokkien ( , ) is a variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred to as Quanzhang (), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.

West Hmongic dialect continuum

Southern Min language

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The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Shanghainese, like the rest of the Wu language group, is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese, such as Mandarin.

extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century CE)

Nüshu (; ; ; ) is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used by ethnic Yao women for several centuries in Jiangyong, a county within the southern Chinese province of Hunan. From the early 21st century there have been official efforts to revitalise the script, as well as indications of renewed interest among the wider public.

Mongolic language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group

main language of the Tangut ethnic people in Xi Xia (Western Xia) dynasty, now extinct

Min Chinese dialect in Fujian

Tungusic language of eastern Manchuria

Sinitic language

Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people in northwest China

Chinese language

languages are spoken in China

Tungusic language spoken by the Oroqens in Northeast Asia

extinct Turkic language

language and dialects ensemble from Central Tibet

speculated language of ancient Goguryeo

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Variant of the Uzbek language spoken in modern day Afghanistan

Wenzhounese (, Wenzhounese: ), also known as Oujiang (), Tong Au () or Au Nyü (), is the language spoken in Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang, China. It is the most divergent division of Wu Chinese, with little to no mutual intelligibility with other Wu dialects or any other variety of Chinese. It features noticeable elements in common with Min Chinese, which is spoken to the south in Fujian. Oujiang is sometimes used as the broader term, and Wenzhou for Wenzhounese proper in a narrow sense.

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Family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages

language family of China and Southeast Asia

extinct Mongolic language of 4th–6th-century Mongolia and northern China

language family of China and Southeast Asia

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thumb|1937 newspaper advertisement featuring Kyōwa-go or Xieheyu () is either of two pidginized languages, one Japanese-based and one Mandarin-based, that were spoken in Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s. They are also known as , , and .

dialect of Wu Chinese

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Last native and proficient speaker and writer of Nüshu script (1906–2004)

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