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I thought that Chinese is a group of languages, so when you mention it do you mean Mandarin and Cantonese both?
by rospaya 3y ago
I thought that Chinese is a group of languages, so when you mention it do you mean Mandarin and Cantonese both?
- DonaldFisk 3y agoYes, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, etc., as they're all derived from Old Chinese and share its script.
- unscaled 3y agoAt the point of the oldest Chinese writing, people spoke Old Chinese. But it's safe to assume old Chinese had dialects as well, and maybe some of them were quite mutually unintelligible enough to be considered different languages.