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Title of the sub ambiguous (lemmygrad.ml)
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What exactly does "The Chinese language" mean? Does it mean Mandarin, or are other langs like Cantonese, Hakka, and Teochew included?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well put, I'm also not familiar with any sentiment that assuming Chinese means putonghua is a problem. Although I won't assume OP meant to imply that. Many nation building projects in the "old world" (where linguistic diversity is great) have involved language standardization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"I’m also not familiar with any sentiment that assuming Chinese means putonghua is a problem." I've come across Westerners who do make this claim, as well as some people from HK.