How many categories are there in China s dialects, and what are the major categories of dialects in

Northern dialects, Wu dialects, Min dialects, Cantonese dialects, Hakka dialects, Jiangxi dialects, Hunan dialects.

Sichuan dialect. Min Nam language.

Cantonese. And Mandarin.

That's basically it.

China's Eight Great Dialect Languages:

1. Northern dialects. It is customary to call it "official language". There are Northeast Mandarin, Northwest Mandarin, Jin Mandarin, Southwest Mandarin and so on.

2. Wu dialect. The Wu dialect is known as the "Wu Nong whisper", which is represented by Shanghainese dialect (one is represented by Suzhou dialect).

3. Hunan dialect. Represented by Changsha dialect, it is distributed in most areas of Hunan Province, and the population of Han nationality accounts for about 5 of the total number of Han people.

Fourth, the Gan dialect. Represented by Nanchang dialect, it is mainly distributed in Jiangxi Province (except for the eastern riverside zone and the south) and the southeast of Hubei Province, and the population accounts for about the total number of Han people.

5. Hakka dialect. Represented by the Meixian dialect of Guangdong, it is mainly distributed in the eastern, southern and northern parts of Guangdong Province, the southeastern part of Guangxi, the western part of Fujian Province, the southern part of Jiangxi Province, and a few areas of Hunan and Sichuan, and the population accounts for about 4 percent of the total number of Han people.

6. Northern Fujian dialect. Represented by Fuzhou dialect, distributed in the northern part of Fujian Province and part of Taiwan Province, some overseas Chinese in Nanyang also speak the northern Fujian dialect. The user population accounts for about the total number of Han people.

7. Southern Fujian dialect. Represented by Xiamen dialect, it is distributed in the southern part of Fujian Province, the eastern part of Guangdong Province and part of Hainan Province, as well as most of Taiwan Province. There are also many overseas Chinese in Nanyang who speak the southern Fujian dialect, and the population of the speaker accounts for about 3 of the total number of Han people.

8. Cantonese dialect. Represented by Cantonese dialect, it is distributed in most parts of Guangdong Province and southeastern Guangxi. Most of the compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, as well as overseas Chinese from Nanyang and some other countries, speak the Cantonese dialect, and the population accounts for about 5 percent of the total number of Han people.

Chinese dialects are divided into 4 major sub-dialects:

1. North and Northeast sub-dialects (northern dialects in the narrow sense): covering Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, eastern Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Henan and other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government;

2. Northwest sub-dialect (Northwest Mandarin): covering Shanxi, western Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other provinces and autonomous regions;

3. Southwest sub-dialect (Southwest Mandarin): covering Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, most of Hubei, northwest Hunan, northwest Guangxi and other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government;

4. Jianghuai sub-dialect (Xiajiang official dialect): covering both sides of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, most of Jiangbei in Jiangsu Province, Jiujiang, Nanjing and Zhenjiang.

There are four types of official dialects: Northern Mandarin, Northwest Mandarin, Southwest Mandarin, and Xiajiang Mandarin.

There are more than 10 kinds of first-level Chinese dialects, including Mandarin, Jin, Xiang, Gan, Wu, Hui, Hakka, Cantonese, Pinghua, Hokkien, Mindong, Hokkien, Puxian, Qiong, Xiangnan, and Waxiang.

There are also second-level dialects under the first-level dialects, such as Beijing Mandarin, Northeast Mandarin, Jilu Mandarin, Jiaoliao Mandarin, Central Plains Mandarin, Lanyin Mandarin, Southwest Mandarin, Jianghuai Mandarin and other eight second-level dialects.

Further down are also shards, such as Shiji films, Baotang films, Canghui films and other areas of Jilu official dialect.

There are also small films under the film, such as Zhao Shen's small film under Shi Ji's film, Xing Heng's small film, Liaotai's small film, etc.

But small pieces cannot be counted as a dialect, such as Liaocheng dialect and Laiwu dialect, which both belong to Liaotai small pieces, with different tones and large differences in vocabulary, which are considered two different dialects.

Moreover, only the case of the Chinese language is listed here. There are many other languages spoken in China, such as Tibetan, which also has three first-order dialects: Amdo, Wei Tibetan, and Kham. Others, such as the Miao Yao language family, the Tongtai language family, the Altaic language family, and the Turkic language family, are too numerous to count, let alone dialects.

Conclusion: The number of Chinese dialects is too numerous to count.