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Fāng yán

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Speakers of various dialects are in the majority in this region.

这一带的方言使用者数量居多。

Different variants of Shanghainese differ greatly with each other.

吴语的方言差异很大。

Gronings is so difficult.

格罗宁根方言好难啊。

Do you think this is a language or a dialect?

你认为这是语言还是方言？

There is little information about this dialect.

关于这种方言的资料很少。

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