Fangyan
方言 (Dialects)
Spoken Chinese was never one language but a patchwork of regional dialects, and recording which word each region used for the same thing preserves a linguistic map that formal written Chinese otherwise erases.
方言 (Dialects)
Spoken Chinese was never one language but a patchwork of regional dialects, and recording which word each region used for the same thing preserves a linguistic map that formal written Chinese otherwise erases.
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