Have you ever wondered why Southern China has so many mutually unintelligible dialects
<peeve>They’re not dialects. They’re languages, which anyone with a rudimentary understanding of linguistics should know, and anyone making video like this ought to know. Outside of academia, the distinction between language and dialect is often a political one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages</peeve>
A language is a dialect with an army.
I prefer to not get hung up on the semantics of what exactly you call them. I just thought the video was interesting.
It was. I just watched her video on tones; it’s really good.
Yep. Pretty good channel imo. At least for a language nerd like me.
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