True even for Mandarin dialects. Mandarin 官话 is a whole language family. What people usually refers to Mandarin in English is actually Standard Mandarin Putonghua 普通话
I grew up speaking Chongqing dialect 成渝话 of SW Mandarin 西南官话, lots Beijingers can’t understand it
I grew up speaking Chongqing dialect 成渝话 of SW Mandarin 西南官话, lots Beijingers can’t understand it
https://twitter.com/notxiangyu/status/1341773368769523717
For thousands of years, Chinese writing is in Classical Chinese which is based on 雅语 Classical Chinese spoken around time of Confucius (551–479 BC).
But anti-traditionalist May 4th movement in 1919 as response to Western predation on China prompted switch to use of colloquial
But anti-traditionalist May 4th movement in 1919 as response to Western predation on China prompted switch to use of colloquial
The vernacular language 白话文 advocated to replace Classical Chinese文言文 in writing is based on Standard Mandarin 國語/普通话 which was created frm Beijing dialect of Mandarin 北京官话.
When I went to school in 1980s China, we learned to speak Standard Mandarin and writing. It’s obvious formal written language is based on Standard Mandarin whereas language we spoke Sichuanese 四川话 is colloquial ‘vulgar’ 俗语. Swear in Standard Mandarin sound weird back then
Before the age of internet and pinyin inputs, one would simply not put Chongqing dialect in Chinese writing such as 爪子嘛？你啷个楞个勒个嘛？
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