Lu Jie, a model who started her career as a commercial model in 1998 speaks which variety of the Chinese language spoken in southeastern China?
Lü Jie Lü Jie (; English name Amy Lu) is a Cantonese-speaking model who works in Mainland China and Hong Kong. She started her career as an advertisement and TV commercial model in 1998. She later moved into sitcoms and TV drama in early 2002.
Languages of China The languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups. The predominant language in China, which is divided into seven major dialect groups (often classified as distinct languages by foreign linguists), is known as "Hanyu" (). and its study is considered a distinct academic discipline in China. "Hanyu", or Han language, spans eight primary dialect groups, that differ from each other morphologically and phonetically to such a degree that dialects from different regions can often be mutually unintelligible. The languages most studied and supported by the state include Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang. China has 297 living languages according to Ethnologue. According to the 2010 edition of the "Nationalencyklopedin", 955 million out of China's then-population of 1.34 billion spoke some variety of Mandarin Chinese as their first language, accounting for 71% of the country's population.