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[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.