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What Languages Are Spoken in China?

Posted on January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 by Jo

Even though I have a fairly high level of fluency in Mandarin Chinese, there are still numerous places in China where I can travel to and not be able to understand a word of what is being spoken by the locals. This map, posted at That’s Magazine, shows why. 

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Image credit: @nick_kapur, via That’s Magazine

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