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Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
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Map of China showing where the different varieties of spoken Chinese are predominantly spoken.
(Adapted from ‘Chinese dialects in China’, 1987, www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/atlas/20/A2_20.jpg, last accessed 29 May 2009, and Wu Yue, ‘Map of the Sinitic languages’, 2004, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_sinitic_languages-en.svg, last accessed 29 May 2009)
Figure 2 Varieties of Chinese

 1.1 Varieties of Chinese