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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by Manishearth on Saturday October 28, 2017 @11:31AM (#15575439)
The different Chinese languages are not dialects.
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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by Cyph0n on Saturday October 28, 2017 @02:41PM (#15576195)
Dialects may be the wrong term, but it's the term I use.

Read the first two paragraphs for a better idea of what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic

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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by Manishearth on Saturday October 28, 2017 @04:29PM (#15576636)
The differences between Chinese languages are often more than the differences between Romance languages.

But yeah, it's similar to the Arabic situation, but the scale may be different.

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