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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by intopieces on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:43PM (#18868085)
Yes, that something is homophony. Mandarin has 1522 syllables when you include tone (413 syllables without). [0] English has 15,831. [1]

[0] https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/14596/how-many-s... [1] http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Syllables/inde... [via wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20091115065840/http://semarch.li...]

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