id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8590 Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia .html text/html 10888 2040 74 Linguists use the term "Mandarin" to refer to the diverse group of dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà. Most of northeastern China, except for Liaoning, did not receive significant settlements by Han Chinese until the 18th century,[41] and as a result the Northeastern Mandarin dialects spoken there differ little from the Beijing dialect.[42] The Manchu people of the area now speak these dialects exclusively; their native language is only maintained in northwestern Xinjiang, where Xibe, a modern dialect, is spoken.[43] The Language Atlas of China calls the remainder of Mandarin a "supergroup", divided into eight dialect groups distinguished by their treatment of the Middle Chinese entering tone (see Tones below):[58][c] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8590.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8590.txt