Though less race motivated in China, and more control/power motivated.
Propaganda from the Chinese government who tried to destroy local languages in favor of Putonghua Mandarin, similar to what America and Canada did to Native American languages and English. This stems from people pronouncing putonghua using the native reading of the characters, even if it doesn’t make sense grammatically. The belief that all the Chinese languages use the same writing system.
While the Incubator and Contributor program was active, there were several volunteer Contributors working on each language. In March, 2021, it was announced that the Contributor program was ending, and today volunteers can no longer apply to become Contributors. The reason why people often call the Chinese languages dialects, is due to a multitude of factors. Duolingo Contributors were a group of volunteers who created and maintained several language courses through the Duolingo Incubator. Perhaps you’re wondering where it is or what happened to it. Most of these languages have completely different grammars, lexicons, phonotactics, and even different writing systems. FebruLast updated: 3 minute read Do you remember the Duolingo Incubator It was that place you could go to check out the status of new and emerging language courses on Duolingo. These languages, often mislabeled as dialects, can often be as close as say French is to Spanish, but are often as distantly related as say French is to German. A group of languages, including Mandarin, that encompasses most of Eastern China.
It’s almost excessively used for writing, law, science, etc.ģrd - the Chinese (Sinitic) language family. The Duolingo Incubator allowed us to scale up our course offerings quickly and efficiently. What we in the west call Chinese, is actually one of a few different things.ġst - there is Mandarin, the official language of China and Taiwan.Ģnd - Putonghua, a standard written language based on Mandarin.
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