Dialects and pronunciation
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There are hundreds of
Chinese dialects
in modern
Spoken Chinese Language,
that can be classified into the following 11 main
dialect groups
:
Mandarin
,
Cantonese
, Hakka, Gan, Jin, Huainan, Minbei, Minnan, Pinghua, Xiang and Wu.
All the
dialects
of the modern
Spoken Chinese Language
share a common writing system that contains two subsystems:
Simplified Chinese
and
Traditional Chinese
.
Different
dialect groups
may have different
romanization
systems, like
Pinyin
for
Mandarin
and
Jyutping
for
Cantonese
.