'Dialect master' reunites separated families

To help missing people reunite with their families, a woman from Shandong province has become a self-taught "dialect master", Chinanews reported on Feb 2.

Tan Yinghuan, a 43-year-old from Dezhou city, has taught herself a dozen different regional dialects over the past nine years and has helped 300 people reunite with their loved ones.

Those Tan has helped range from abducted women and children to seniors suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and as many of them came from different parts of the country, their dialects posed a challenge in identifying where they had come from.