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.

Just 125,507 residents spoke English and a Chinese dialect at home. Among those in my age group of 25 to 29, just 321 listed Teochew as either their most spoken or second-most spoken language at home.

THE Chinese community in Malaysia has seven major subdivisions with their own dialects and customs. This means there are seven ways to pronounce the same Chinese words. The seven Chinese dialects ...

This means users can talk to their TVs in their local dialects, which is quite important in China, given that it has around seven to ten main language groups, each with several dialects.

Uighurs speak several dialects of two languages divided by territory--Standard Xinjiang and Standard Soviet. The former is heavily influenced by Mandarin Chinese, while the latter is spoken mostly ...

There are more then a hundred different dialect in China, but what are some of the mainstream dialect? Which is the hardest to learn? Let's find out in "Morning Talk" with Selina, James and Ivan.

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...