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To: Pontiac

Yup, Mandarin is to the Chinese Empire what Latin was to the Roman Empire and English was to the British Empire.


40 posted on 09/10/2023 5:30:50 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: In_Iowa_not_from
"Yup, Mandarin is to the Chinese Empire what Latin was to the Roman Empire and English was to the British Empire."
In Chinese, Mandarin is usually called "Government (National) Language (Guoyu), at least by Nationalist Chinese.
87 posted on 09/11/2023 5:54:42 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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