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MorethantwobillionpeopleliveinAsia!Thisisabouttwo-fifthsofallthepeopleonearth.ThisnumberincludespartsofRussia,allofChina,Japan,IndiaandmanyothersmallerAsiancountries.Withsomanypeoplelivinginthisareaitisnotsurprisiiiingthattherearemanydifferentlanguagesspoken.
AbouthalfofthesetowbillionpeoplespeakChinese.However,notalloralChineseisthesame.Therearemanydialectsofthislanguage:PekingeseCantoneseandMandarin,tonamebutafew.Itisquitedifficultforthespeakersofeachdialecttounderstandeachother.Yet,strangelyenough,understandeachother'sspeech,theycanwellunderstandeschotherwhentheyputthewordsonpaper.
Italldependsonthetoneofvoicethateachdialectuses.Attimes,inonesentence,eachwordhasadifferenttone,sothatthesamewordmightmeanonethinginonedialectandanotherthinginadifferentdialect.