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