In reality, there are at least five distinct groups of dialects.

Within a dialect group, members do not understand other dialects.

Sometimes the members of a dialect group shared more than one distinct song.

Today, however, it is widely accepted that there are three major dialect groups.

Rakshani is the major dialect group in terms of numbers.

Modern Aramaic is the group of dialects that people use every day.

Middle Aramaic is the group of dialects that people do not speak every day, but they use them for special things like writing and religion.

It was intentionally a way to unify the Chinese from different dialect groups.

About 30 groups of various cultures and dialects are spread over the highland territory.

They also learned Cantonese and intermarried with people of other dialect groups.