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Why isn't Sichuanese considered its own language rather than just a dialect of Mandarin? Apparently it shares less lexical similarity with Mandarin than Spanish does with Portuguese or French does with Italian.
>Only 47.8% of Sichuanese vocabulary is in common with the Beijing dialect on which Standard Chinese is based; indeed Sichuanese shares more vocabulary with the Xiang and Gan varieties of Chinese, even though Sichuanese is usually classified as a dialect of Mandarin.[1]
>Although "Sichuanese" is often synonymous with the Chengdu-Chongqing dialect, there is still a great amount of diversity among the Sichuanese dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible with each other or standard Mandarin.
>It has 5 tones instead of 4, and somewhat different grammar rules.
> Although Sichuanese is generally classified as a dialect of Mandarin Chinese, it is highly divergent in phonology, vocabulary, and even grammar from Standard Chinese.[61]
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>>75839639
Why is Norwegian considered a separate language from Swedish?
It is a dialect until it possesses its own army.
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>>75839639
Because, Chinese unity
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because it is still a later division of chinese language occurring in the last thousand years
in order to qualify for another language it has to be middle chinese or classical division such as wu or yue occurring at least 1.5 k years ago
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>>75839823
But other languages around the world that part of the same family and diverged less than 1,000 years ago (and share more than 50% lexical similarity) are still considered to be distinct languages.
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>>75843357
chinese is not as nice comparatively to other languages due to lack of unified pronunciation system and a complete dependence on logograms
the case of mandarin and related dialects have to do with insularity and distance of non-mandarin chinese
mandarin-related chinese, mr, are carried by a continued presence of ruling bureaucracy including the sichuan basin, north of the huai river and west to gansu shanxi
other non-mr chinese however only have intermittent chinese rule with historical power structure derived from chinese forming a bubble against continued contact with the north, thereby insulating itself from norther influences such with grammar or foreign sounds like 儿
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>>75843575
>intermittent chinese rule
with the chinese dynasties
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>>75839805
More like the commies want it that way.
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>>75843575
>historical power structure derived from chinese
local chinese from previous immigrations
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>tfw sichuanese gf
>tfw research sichuanese history, discover that sichuanese are more closely related to disgusting, filthy hmong niggers from hunan instead of glorious original shu-ba sichuanese descended from tibetan/qiangic peoples who were all massacred by zhang xianzhong or the manchus in the 17th century
should I dump her?
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>>75843756
yes
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>>75843756
don't be autistic.
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>>75843756
There might still be a little possibility that she's an original native sichuanese though
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>>75843756
the ba-shu were taken to populate nw china a long time ago
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>>75843786
zitto animale
>>75843825
she tans reddish and has a pretty high nose. crossing my fingers that she is still native
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>>75839639
Nationalism: the belief you're supposed to adhere one culture in the name of the government you pay taxes to.
In other words, the borders between languages aren't created only by lexical similarity, but also by imbeciles who know nothing about language and yet want to shove a "STRONG COUNTRY! ONE PEOPLE!" imbecile discourse down your throat.
This isn't exclusive to China, by the way.
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>>75843645
More like the Ming Dynasty wanted it that way
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>>75843645
>>75844100
More like governments love to push for this kind of shit, just like the Persian government is shilling people to stop calling the language "Farsi" and call it "Persian" instead, or people still believe that stupid Galician vs. European Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese meme.
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>>75839639
Because the same writing system is used. Would you consider US english and UK english to be different languages too since they have grammar and vocabulary differences?
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