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
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bud, in southern China you can travel between neighbouring cities their dialects would not be mutually intelligible with Mandarin or even each other
the distance between Cantonese and Mandarin is wider than spanish and italian
and thats not even talking about non-chinese langauges like Mongolian and Uyghur or whatever
Really doesn't help that China insists on calling them 'dialects' and not 'languages', which is what they really are, though the added confusion of them being basically the same when written down muddles things.
a language is a dialect with an army and a navy