Are China’s Dialects Dying?
If you’ve ever studied Chinese and then tried to understand someone from Sichuan, or Xinjiang, or pretty much any city, you know that for most people there is not a single language called “Chinese.” Standard Chinese, known as Mandarin in English, or Putonghua (普通话）in, uh, Mandarin, became the official national language of China in 1912 [...]
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