Languages and dialects in China
In China, if you can understand the saying of “十里不同音”, you could imagine how abundant that the spoken languages are.
十 里 不 同 音
shí lǐ bù tóng yīn
English:Every 10 li people speak in different way.
There are 56 nationalities in China. Every nationality has their own languages, not dialects. It is said that totally there are 80 kinds of languages spoken in China. Do not think the differences between the languages in China same as the differences between British English and American English. The differences between British English and American English belong to the range of dialect. The differences between the languages in China belong to language.