Re: Half of all Chinese people can't speak Mandarin!

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

    Tak> It says that 53% can use Putonghua "for social interaction"
    Tak> (<jiao1 ji4> 鈭日�).  Presumably more
    Tak> people know PTH, but not as fluently.  Also, 86% use a
    Tak> Sinitic (Han) language for social interaction.

Only 86%?  I thought over 90% of the Chinese population are ethnically
Han.


How is it that "use of sinitic (han) language" equates to "ethnically
Han"...?

Austin
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