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gabagaul | 2 years ago

But Cantonese isn’t spoken in Taiwan except a handful of Hong Kong immigrants. What’s your point?

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throwaway2990|2 years ago

But they do speak Taiwanese in Taiwan which you wouldn’t understand if you only spoke mandarin.

alephnerd|2 years ago

> they do speak Taiwanese

Do you mean Hakka and/or Hokkien?

Hokkien which is primarily spoken across the strait in Fujian.

Hakka is primarily spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi.

Xi himself was the Party head of Fujian for most of his career and Xi's father was the Party head of Guangdong when he was rehabilitated in the Deng Xiaoping era.

This is why most manufacturing in China ended up coastal Southern China - most Chinese Taiwanese trace their heritage to there barely 2-5 generations ago at most.

The younger generation (post-1989) in Taiwan speaks and understands Mandarin.