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Topic: Min Bei

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chinese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Min Family 閩, which linguists further divide into 5 to 7 subdivisions on its own, all of which are mutually unintelligible.
		Furthermore, for some, the implication that describing Chinese as multiple languages is more correct carries with it the implication that the notion of a single Chinese language and a single Chinese state or nationality is backward, oppressive, artificial, and out of touch with reality.
		For instance, the Min language that is centered in Fujian Province contains five subdivisions, and the Mandarin dialects (Beifanghua) also contains nine, such as Yunnan hua and Sichuan hua.
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	Chinese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many Wu, Min, Hakka, and Cantonese speakers consider their own varieties as separate spoken languages, but the Han Chinese race as one entity.
		Thus, although the number one is yi in Mandarin, yat in Cantonese and tsit in Hokkien (form of Min), they derive from a common ancient Chinese word and still share an identical character (一).
		Nevertheless, the orthographies of Chinese dialect groups are not completely identical, and their vocabularies have diverged.
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