• CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Imagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      6 months ago

      "So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?"

      "Wenzhounese."

      "When Joe needs you to do what?"

      "No, I speak Wenzhounese. It's the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province."

      "...So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?"