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There is no such thing as a "chinese" language. Your statement is akin to saying "You'd better start learning european then". China is a region with a far grea
by paidleaf 8y ago
There is no such thing as a "chinese" language. Your statement is akin to saying "You'd better start learning european then".
China is a region with a far greater linguistic diversity than europe.
- laretluval 8y agoPlain "Chinese" commonly refers to Mandarin in English usage. The CCP is trying to wipe out the other dialects as soon as possible, anyway.
- paidleaf 8y ago> Plain "Chinese" commonly refers to Mandarin in English usage. What we call "chinese language" has historically been cantonese as that's what we are mostly familiar with ( mostly via immigration ). Most of us don't even know there are different chinese languages. I know I didn't until someone corrected me on social media.