[lg policy] The Slow Death Of China’s Dialects By Wing Wong On Feb 21, 2019 https://flic.kr/p/hW7C8G - By Trey Radcliffe Share In 2017, 73% of the Chinese population reported speaking Mandarin Chinese, up from 50% in 2000. Since gaining status as an official language in 1909, Mandarin has quickly gained prominence as the lingua franca within China. This has greatly improved the ability for people of different regions to communicate with each other, in addition to strengthening national unity. However, this has come at a price. Hundreds of dialects, many of which have limited or no mutual intelligibility with standard Mandarin, are in severe decline. While older generations continue to use dialects in their everyday life, many young people have never received any education in their parents’ native tongue and have lost the ability to speak their dialect with fluency. Should this trend continue, many of these dialects may soon go extinct. Of course, the Chinese government should continue t
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