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francis

mandarin
March 29, 2004 02:59PM

On 28 February, Dag wrote "about learning english, there are more mandarin chinese speakers". Does anybody know how many Mandarin speakers there are? I have Mandarin speaking acquaintances who use English when in Hong Kong, for example, because most people there speak Cantonese and cannot speak Mandarin. The same happens in other areas of China. French and Spanish are much closer linguistically than are Cantonese and Mandarin. The same can be said of the other "Chinese" languages spoken in China.

C'est hors sujet but that's life - many interesting paths to follow.

Até logo!

Francis

tatanka

Re: mandarin
March 30, 2004 07:44AM

"Mandarin is the most widely spoken of all Chinese languages/dialects and is used by upwards of 720 million people in China, or 70 percent of the population of China (Grimes 1992)."
[www.lmp.ucla.edu]

Here you are!

Tatanka

francis

Re: mandarin
March 30, 2004 03:58PM

Thank you! Francis

francis

Re: mandarin
March 30, 2004 04:14PM

Perhaps, I should say "cheu cheu". Francis

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