Americans discover the 3000 year old continent spanning nation of 1.4 billion people… might have regional differences. honestly, who knew?
western ignorance is truly a form of exceptionalism
Americans discover the 3000 year old continent spanning nation of 1.4 billion people… might have regional differences. honestly, who knew?
western ignorance is truly a form of exceptionalism
Fujian has Min bei (Sanming, Nanping, Wuyi Mt. I think), Min dong (Fuzhou), Putian, Min nan (Quanzhou, Zhangzhou), Min xi (Longyan), and Hakka. That’s six different, not mutually intelligible, languages.
Even Zhangzhounese and Quanzhounese, while mostly mutually intelligible, are different enough from each other that they would be called different languages if it was europe (like serbian-croatian, portuguese-galician, czech-slovak, icelandic-faroese, norwegian-swedish etc)