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Re:China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth by jacobolus on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:28PM (#20647746)
According to Wikipedia, Sichuanese shares <50% of its vocabulary with Beijing Mandarin. That is significantly further apart than French or Spanish to Italian. (Disclaimer: I know very little about the relation between Sichuanese and Beijing Mandarin, and would be happy to see better explained quantitative comparisons.)

Maybe you are underestimating how close Romance languages are.

In any event, I think everyone would agree that Sichuanese is much closer to Beijing Mandarin than other Chinese languages (like Xiang, Wu, Hakka, Min, etc. etc.).

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Re:China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:46PM (#20647923)
Link?

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese

Officially sichuanese isn’t even considered another variety of Chinese (nor are any other western Chinese dialects). It’s even just called southwest mandarin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Mandarin

The page specifically for chengdu mandarin doesn’t mention anything about 50%...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu-Chongqing_dialect

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