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The 17 pages that link to Sinitic languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Mandarin ChineseNarrower topic: Mandarin belongs to this broader family of related but often mutually unintelligible languages.

• Chinese languageBroader topic: This linguistic family groups the varieties commonly called Chinese.

• Sino-Tibetan languagesBroader topic: The family’s largest branch includes varieties spoken by hundreds of millions of people.

• Han ChineseNarrower topic: Han communities speak many related languages, not one uniform spoken tongue.

• LingnanNarrower topic: Migration and language change brought Sinitic speech into contact with Lingnan’s earlier communities.

• Wu ChineseNarrower topic: Wu is one major branch within this broader language family.

• Yue ChineseNarrower topic: Yue is one branch within this broader language group.

• Gan ChineseNarrower topic: Gan is one branch of this larger group of languages descended from ancestral Chinese.

• Hakka ChineseNarrower topic: Hakka belongs to this branch, whose members are often called Chinese languages or dialects.

• Min ChineseNarrower topic: Min is one major branch of this language family.

• BaiyueCompared with: Linguistic difference helps explain why ancient writers distinguished southern populations from northern states.

• Chinese phonologyNarrower topic: The family includes the distinct sound systems studied under Chinese phonology.

• Xiang ChineseNarrower topic: Xiang belongs to this branch, alongside languages such as Mandarin and Wu.

• Fuzhou dialectNarrower topic: Fuzhou is Sinitic, but its classification as Min reflects deep differences from Mandarin.

• Southern MinNarrower topic: Southern Min belongs to this broader family, despite substantial mutual unintelligibility.

• Vietnam under Chinese ruleRelated: Classical Chinese became the language of administration and elite writing in Vietnam.

• Huizhou ChineseNarrower topic: Huizhou Chinese belongs to this broad genealogical grouping.