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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] 3 points 1 year ago

The difference between it being a rule and an exception depends on which side of the North/South dividing line a speaker is from. Generally, people from south and south-east of the Yangtze river speak languages whose most recent common ancestor is Middle Chinese and not Mandarin.

Here's a map of the Sinitic languages and a map of the varieties of Mandarin.