What exactly does “The Chinese language” mean? Does it mean Mandarin, or are other langs like Cantonese, Hakka, and Teochew included?

  • The Free Penguin@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    well, the different Sinitic languages are only mutually intelligible in written form, and that even only partly. For example, do Mandarin speakers know what 㑚 means?