Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

(Reuters) - China has been promoting Mandarin as the national language for decades to boost unity in a country with thousands of dialects and minority tongues. Here are some facts about language and ...

Lead author says there are many differences between Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in official circumstances.

Lei, X.T. and Huang, D.L. (2026) A Study of Chinese Vocabulary in the Donggan Language from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-13. doi: ...

SHANGHAI - To drive "more heads in beds", hotel chain IHG has launched an incentivised game based on the various dialects spoken in China using WeChat's voice recognition and news feed functionalities ...