Learn more about our folksongs and stories, and the regions they come from!
The Chinese languages, known by linguists as the “Sinitic languages,” include a range of rich and complex languages! Most scholars agree that the Chinese languages include ten separate languages, each with their own dialects and varieties. These are Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Hui, Gan, Xiang, Min, Hakka, Yue, and Ping. These languages are historically related to one another, and are distributed across different places in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and the island nation Taiwan.
Click below to see songs and stories in languages from diverse places!
For more comprehensive web resources on the Sinitic Languages, see:
Digital Language Atlas of China: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/18939.
Glottolog: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sino1245.