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newbie take: there is one Chinese language intermediate take: there are many Chinese languages expert take: there is one Chinese language There are also plen
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
newbie take: there is one Chinese language
intermediate take: there are many Chinese languages
expert take: there is one Chinese language
There are also plenty of languages in China that are not Chinese or a dialect of Chinese. Tibetan and Mongolian (and their many dialects) are obviously not Chinese. Chinese written language is used as a phonetic script for some minority languages (although many are based on uighur script is used a lot also, Uighur itself uses arabic).
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y ago[flagged]
- j16sdiz 2y agoHow how Yi? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuosu_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuosu_language
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoTibet is a part of China today. Whether Tibet should be a part of China is up for debate, but the fact that it has been completely integrated into the PRC for at least 70 years now isn't really. I'll be the first one to argue that the PRC's moral claim to the territory comes from it being conquered by the Mongolians during the Yuan dynasty is lame. But it still doesn't mean anything when China controls it today. And that's just the TAR, there are plenty of Tibetans living in areas of China that aren't very contested as not being part of China.