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A Japanese Transit poster (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by WitchHunterSiegfried on scored.co (+1 / -0 / +78Score on mirror )
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devotech2 on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese are practically alien languages compared to what the Han Chinese spoke in ancient times, but Cantonese is actually considered linguistically closer to ancient Chinese than mandarin is. They both come from the Han and are both descended from the same language, though.

It's like comparing English to Russian and deciding that we are completely different races from each other because we sound way different. That's just how languages evolve. The relationship between ancient chinese, Cantonese, and mandarin is analogous to the relationship between proto indo european, English, and Russian. A fuck load of diversion and change happens within thousands of years.

An actual southern Chinese native language would be hmong, which isn't even in the same language family at all.

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