The Cantonese-versus-Mandarin debate is fierce even in Chinatowns in the United States, where many residents traditionally spoke Cantonese or a related dialect, Taishanese, because their families came from Guangdong Province. But in recent years, the number of immigrants from other parts of China has grown, and Mandarin is now becoming the dominant language.The decline of Taishanese is discussed more directly in a previous post. The NYT article itself dates back to July 2010.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
NYT on the decline of Taishanese (again)
At the end of his article on China’s new broadcast limitations on Cantonese, New York Times journalist Edward Wong briefly refers to Taishanese.
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