Chinese Dialects

Im just doing another one since I didn't see the chinese dialects on anyone elses blogs.

The most spoken Chinese dialects are Mandarin, Wu, and Cantonese, although many Chinese speakers see "Standard Mandarin" as "the Chinese language", and everything else as just dialects.  All of the different dialects share a common history and a common written language.  The differences between Chinese dialects are as great as the differences between Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc.). Like Romance languages, the modern dialects all descended from a common proto-language (in this case, the Romance languages descended from Latin). Unlike Romance languages, the speakers remained a united nation throughout their history instead of fighting with each other and dividing up along linguistic borders.