This is especially true when speaking of the southern Chinese languages.

Some southern Chinese regional languages add a prefix such as 阿 ('ah').

The grammar of Gan is similar to southern Chinese languages.

All of the principal southern languages have their own script as well.

It is generally considered to be a southwestern or southern Iranian language.

This is about the proportion found in most southern languages, the idioms of the north being much more rich in consonants.

She got many chances to sing in all southern languages.

For centuries, the northern and southern languages flourished quite independently of each other until the end of the 19th century.

Before the modern period, this change has happened in Estonian and other southern Finnic languages.

"Sifu" is a common romanization, although the term and pronunciation are also used in other southern languages.