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.

As a child, CNA TODAY's Loraine Lee was fluent in Teochew, but she can barely form a sentence in the Chinese dialect now. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under Xi Jinping’s rule, not only has the CCP taken a more extensive role in everyday life, it has redefined the meaning of what it is to be Chinese.

Chinese appliance manufacturer Skyworth (machine ... 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 ...

A little South African girl showed how she spoke in one of China's popular dialects. Online community members were impressed with her communication skills.