MEotW: fāngyán
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What does the Mandarin word often mistranslated as “dialect” actually mean?
“Many of these so-called Chinese ‘dialects’ are in fact, different languages.”
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) November 4, 2020
—David Moser (@david__moser), in his book _A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language_ https://t.co/Ld20t2JQ2W
List of different Chinese languages in which publications are available on jw.org as of 2025-06-02
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