Re: chinese question

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Peter> Lee Sau Dan wrote:

>> If Finnish, which has around 6 million speakers, is treated as
>> a proper language and handled seriously as such, then why
>> shouldn't Cantonese, which has 60 million speakers, be
>> neglected and excluded from serious treatment?

Peter> Because Canton isn't a nation.

It was, some 1000 years ago. There are tombs in Canton that have been
recently discovered. The tombs have been determined to belong to the
then "South Yue" king. They're now a museum.


I believe the king was a Han, not a Yue people.
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