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miyamotomusashi · 12-01-2004, 08:15 AM

What is most funny is that I have read that American English as it is spoken in Boston is closer to what English English was in London in the 1600s then London English today.

On China:
here is a list of languages spoken in mordern china that have over 10,000,0000 speaker. The (#) is the millions of speaker.

CHINESE, GAN (21); CHINESE, HAKKA (26); CHINESE, JINYU (45); CHINESE, MANDARIN (867); CHINESE, MIN BEI (10); CHINESE, MIN NAN (26); CHINESE, WU (77); CHINESE, XIANG (36); CHINESE, YUE (52); ZHUANG, NORTHERN (10);

Chinese is a language family that is a subset of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is not and has never been a single language. There are over 200 languges spoken in modern china. Excluding dialects some of which are mutually unintelligible. Also the vairiation is decreasing (In part do to writen form, mandarin, and telecomuncation) meaning that the languages at previous times were even less similar and related. The variation of chinese languages is based in part that they did not derive from 1 mother tongue or nation. Emperor Qin was the first person to make china a single nation beofore then it was as homogenious as western europe in the 1400s.

12-01-2004, 08:15 AM	#37 (permalink)
miyamotomusashi Upright Location: MA, USA	What is most funny is that I have read that American English as it is spoken in Boston is closer to what English English was in London in the 1600s then London English today. On China: here is a list of languages spoken in mordern china that have over 10,000,0000 speaker. The (#) is the millions of speaker. CHINESE, GAN (21); CHINESE, HAKKA (26); CHINESE, JINYU (45); CHINESE, MANDARIN (867); CHINESE, MIN BEI (10); CHINESE, MIN NAN (26); CHINESE, WU (77); CHINESE, XIANG (36); CHINESE, YUE (52); ZHUANG, NORTHERN (10); Chinese is a language family that is a subset of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is not and has never been a single language. There are over 200 languges spoken in modern china. Excluding dialects some of which are mutually unintelligible. Also the vairiation is decreasing (In part do to writen form, mandarin, and telecomuncation) meaning that the languages at previous times were even less similar and related. The variation of chinese languages is based in part that they did not derive from 1 mother tongue or nation. Emperor Qin was the first person to make china a single nation beofore then it was as homogenious as western europe in the 1400s. Last edited by miyamotomusashi; 12-01-2004 at 08:42 AM..