The dialects in the middle and southern Gansu belong respectively to Lan Yin official dialect, Zhong Yuan official dialect, and Southwest official dialect.

甘肃中、南部汉语方言分属于兰银官话、中原官话及西南官话。

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Putonghua (or Mandarin), the predominant dialect, is spoken by over 70% of the population and is one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations.

普通话是最普遍的方言，中国70%以上的人口说普通话，普通话还是联合国六种官方语言之一。

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The majority of the Chinese (Hàn) speak Mandarin dialect, the official language of China, witch is further divided into sub-dialects.

大多数汉族人说汉语，即中国的官方语言，可以再分为不同的方言。

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It may be extremely hard to persuade ethnic Thais to let southerners govern themselves and to give their Malay dialect official recognition.

ECONOMIST: Thailand and Malaysia

Spain's new constitution of 1978, three years after Franco's death, divided Franco's centralised country into 17 regions, granted privileges to those parts (the Basque country, Catalonia and Galicia) with historic identities of their own, made Castilian pre-eminent as Spain's official language, but gave other languages principally Catalan, Basque, Valencian (a dialect of Catalan) and Galician equal status in areas where they were spoken.

ECONOMIST: Catalan zeal