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The different Chinese languages are not dialects.
by Manishearth 9y ago
The different Chinese languages are not dialects.
- Cyph0n 9y agoDialects may be the wrong term, but it's the term I use. Read the first two paragraphs for a better idea of what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic
- Manishearth 9y agoThe differences between Chinese languages are often more than the differences between Romance languages. But yeah, it's similar to the Arabic situation, but the scale may be different.