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Re:Beijing says 400 million Chinese cannot speak Mandarin by abayer on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:13PM (#6342105)
The equivalent term in linguistics is "dialect continuum" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum
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