Re:Beijing says 400 million Chinese cannot speak Mandarin
by cwhy on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:42AM
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Han people take part of about 91% percent... This 70% may refer to the "standard" mandarin, more like comparing to accents of the same language.
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Re:Beijing says 400 million Chinese cannot speak Mandarin
by speeder on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:49AM
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I guess my comment confused people...
Cantonese for example is a Han language.
There are lots of non-mandarin but Han languages, and beside those.there are the languages of non-Han people.