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Re:The New Wave of Indian Type by HumanDrivenDev on Thursday March 08, 2018 @01:47PM (#16546589)
Its just typical chinese nationalist mythology. 'We all speak the same language' is just another fairy tale they drill into their heads, along with '5000 years of culture'

When youve talked to one of them youve talked to all of them.

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Re:The New Wave of Indian Type by tonylinn80 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:41PM (#16547447)
A few dialects are unintelligible indeed, and they're mostly spoken in southern parts of China. But most people can understand dialects spoken in central and east (north of Changjiang river) fairly easily even though they cannot speak those dialects.
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Re:The New Wave of Indian Type by HumanDrivenDev on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:28PM (#16548646)
And Portuguese people can often understand Spanish. Are they dialects?
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