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| | Chinese Language Page |
 | | Dialects usually refer to "regional forms of a language." However, many of the regional variants which are commonly referred to as "dialects" of the Chinese language are more different from one another than French is from Spanish or Norwegian is from Swedish! |
 | | One thing that makes the Chinese dialect situation unique -- that is different from the situation confronting speakers of French and Spanish or Norwegian and Swedish -- concerns the fact that all speakers who are literate share a common written language. |
 | | There are 885,000,000 people who speak Chinese all over the world, with the most speakers in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, the United States of America, Mongolia, Viet Nam, Brunei, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Hong Kong. |
| www.uni.edu /becker/chinese.html (369 words) |
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