Context: Hokkien has one of the most diverse phoneme inventories among Chinese varieties, with more consonants than Standard Mandarin or Cantonese. Vowels are more-or-less similar to that of Standard Mandarin. Hokkien varieties retain many pronunciations that are no longer found in other Chinese varieties. These include the retention of the /t/ initial, which is now /tʂ/ (Pinyin 'zh') in Mandarin (e.g. 'bamboo' 竹 is tik, but zhú in Mandarin), having disappeared before the 6th century in other Chinese varieties.

Question: What Chinese dialect has more consonants than standard Mandarin or Cantonese?
Answer: Hokkien

Question: How do Hokkien vowels compare to Standard Mandarin vowels?
Answer: similar

Question: What do Hokkein varieties retain that are no longer found in other Chinese varieties?
Answer: many pronunciations

Question: Hokkien has one of the most diverse what, among Chinese varieties?
Answer: phoneme inventories

Question: What do Mandarin and Cantonese have more of than Hokkien?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What other vowels are similar to Cantonese vowels?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do Hokkien varieties nolonger have that are still found in other Chinese varieties?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is one of the least diverse phoneme among Chinese varieties?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does Cantonese have more of among Chinese varieties?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In Hokkien how do the type of diverse phoneme compare to Standard Mandarin?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does Mandarin have that isn't found in other Chinese varieties?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What has the retention of Cantonese become now in Mandarin?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do Chinese varieties have more of than Standard Mandarin?
Answer: Unanswerable