| Display title | Chinese Dialects and Accents |
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| Date of page creation | 21:27, 1 November 2013 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | China does not have a singular language but a family of related languages. For historical reasons, these languages are referred to as Chinese dialects, but like so many other things in Asia, this doesn't mean what it means in the West. Chinese dialects are often quite different, and can be as far apart as German is from English. In fact, they're more akin the Romance languages than any two dialects of the same language in terms of mutual intelligibility, but their use of the same writing system and shared cultural identity put them over into the "dialect" category for the sake of convenience. The debate is not helped by the Chinese habit of referring to a dialect as the language of whatever particular place they hail from, regardless of actual geo-linguistic differences, or the fact that the Chinese word that we translate into dialect (方言 fāngyán) actually means something slightly different. |