普遍认同的是，在汉语语言群体中有五种主要方言语群。

It is usually accepted that there are five major dialect groups within the Chinese language group.

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在冰岛语中，字母h-甚至加强了，在冰岛语的两种主要方言之一中，hw-(当时的形式是hv-)演变为kv-。

In Icelandic, it was even reinforced: in one of the two main dialects of that language, hw- (by that time hv-) became kv-.

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汉语主要可分为13种方言，而这些方言又可以被进一步划分为多种地方方言。

Chinese is mainly divided into 13 dialects and these dialects can be further divided into many kinds of local dialects.

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And the schools play a major role in this and thus all these kids who grew up speaking patois or Provencal or Gascon-- I forgot Gascon, around Bordeaux, they can sing the Marseillaise in acceptable French as they march off to be slaughtered.

在这里面学校扮演了主要角色,所以这些说着,方言或者普罗旺斯语或者加斯科涅语的孩子们,我把加斯科涅语忘了,在波尔多附近,他们操着勉强能接受的法语唱着马赛曲,上前线等待被屠杀

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