shadowrider Posted October 1, 2024 Report Posted October 1, 2024 Anyone studying any dialect of Chinese or want to share about the culture ?
haven_seeker Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 um i grew up speaking Cantonese. it’s my native language. Cantonese originated from Guangdong, which was called Canton in English. Other parts of the world speak it too like Hong Kong and i think parts of Singapore and Malaysia and the Cantonese communities in California. there’s a lot of history and culture. Is there anything in particular? If i know it i can try to share. China has hundreds of dialects. The official language there is mandarin but local dialects are closer to 300. I think Chinese is classified into seven to ten primary language groups like Mandarin, Wu (Shanghai), Yue (Cantonese), Min (Fujian/Taiwan), Hakka, Xiang (Hunan), and Gan (Jiangxi). Some classifications include Jin, Pinghua, and Huizhou. Before China was unified by Shi Huangdi and became one country, it was hundreds of small countries living next to each other. That’s why each place had their own spoken and written language and sounds different from each other. But Shi Huangdi destroyed and burned all of the books and buried all of the scholars and he changed Chinese communication by mandating a standardized writing system across his unified empire around 221 BCE. This forced people with different regional dialects to read the same texts and speak the same language. i learned this when i was in elementary school
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