Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development
by yen223 on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:13AM
(#10952066)
They barely even share that. The word for "not" in Mandarin is 不是, but in Cantonese it's 唔係. "Book" is 书 in Mandarin, but 冊 in Hokkien.
There are enough differences between the various "dialects" in both the spoken and written form, that there's a debate as to whether they should be considered "dialects" at all, or a separate language altogether.
There are enough differences between the various "dialects" in both the spoken and written form, that there's a debate as to whether they should be considered "dialects" at all, or a separate language altogether.