The varieties of ChineseAccording to Bernard Comrie (1990: 83), “there are more than 1,000,000,000 people who speak some form of Chinese. » Seeing this figure, Chinese should have appeared long enough for its evolution and let it spread to different regions in which Chinese or its form can become the dominant language. The origin of Chinese is studied through inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, as the first records were marked on them around 1300 BC. (Chou Fa-Kao 1986: 1) These are the first recorded languages ​​that can be used for analysis. The development of Chinese is also based on these discoveries. Chinese is one of the branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is said that there are seven main languages ​​in Chinese languages ​​(Joseph 2004: 7). They are Cantonese (Yue), Fukiense (min), Gan, Hakka, Hunanese (Hsiang), Mandarin and Wu. Basically, there are three stages in the development of the Chinese language. These are ancient Chinese, middle Chinese and modern Chinese. For each stage, it can be divided into different intervals (Fig. 1). At different intervals, the varieties mentioned above appear. However, some turtle bones and shells may not have been perfectly preserved and insufficient information may be available for analysis. There are discrepancies between the different references regarding time and, therefore, no exact boundary could be established between each stage of development. There is only a rough estimate made by those who have studied the history of the Chinese language. Furthermore, Joseph (2004:16) also stated that due to lack of data, most descriptions of family relationships across Chinese languages ​​are based on impression. There has been a long story about the historical development of the Chinese language...... middle of paper ...... object, noun adverb, etc., these elements are actually placed in different positions in a sentence in Cantonese and Putonghua. As mentioned in part two, they get a different order in a sentence. Moreover, even if the same symbol is used, the vocabularies are different from each other to some extent. Therefore, I consider this grammatical difference to be attributed to their mutual unintelligibility. As we know, there is no exact answer on how to classify Cantonese and Putonghua whether they are languages ​​or dialects. When we discuss this problem, there are actually things that depend on the magnitude. How big is enough? How high is the status to be prestigious? It all depends on the angle we consider. Based on the points mentioned so far, I would consider Cantonese and Putonghua to be languages ​​rather than dialects..