In Guangdong province in the very south of China ... which must have meant a simpler shared vocabulary and set of grammar structures. Many Chinese dialects are at least as different from each other as ...

Nearly everyone in Mainland China speaks Mandarin, and then there are an estimated 300-plus other languages and dialects spoken. These include Cantonese — in Guangdong province and Hong Kong and ...

But further east in Guangdong province is a little-known city ... most Shanwei people speak the Haifeng dialect at home, but ...