Hogs gonna be squealing about a Chinese takeover conspiracy if they see this lmao
It does not make sense. Mandarin and Cantonese are not mutually intelligible. Penn Dutch and German are also not mutually intelligible. It makes plenty of sense to divide them all, but it is only done for the Euro languages.
the thing is what is the German spoken in like Kentucky? I highly doubt its identical or even super similar to standard German ie Hochdeutsch. It is probably another dialect like Austro-Bavarian. actually Pennsylvania Dutch is based on the alemannic dialects so honestly for all intents and purposes I would group them together because it wouldn’t make sense not to. it’s just that Pennsylvania Dutch managed to mark itself out at something separate
Edit sry not Alemannic but Rhine franconian
I wonder why Tagalog is so prominent in Nevada
Quebec - Upper Appalachia Unification when?
Treating mandarin and Chinese like they’re the same language is like saying German and English are the same language cmv
Cantonese and Mandarin are different. Chinese normally just refers to mandarin. Also Cantonese and Mandarin are much closer then english and german. Closer to spanish and portuguese.
The reason Cantonese is/was dominant in the West was because early Chinese immigrants were mainly from Guangdong Province, that’s why Chinatowns are/were mostly Cantonese. Nowadays Chinese immigrants are most likely Mandarin speakers, and Chinatowns are slowly turning into Mandarin dominant.
anyone else feel like Tennessee looks way lighter than Michigan?
(I checked in mspaint, they’re the same color)
