Language Families of the World Episode 17, The Languages We Call Chinese Episode 17, The Languages We Call Chinese.

Streaming video - 2019

Explore the Asian languages beyond Japanese and Korean, looking into several families along the way. See why Mandarin and Cantonese, though both considered Chinese, are a classic example of two different languages being mistaken for dialects, thanks in part to a shared writing system and cultural proximity.

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Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2019.
2020.
Language
English
Other Authors
John McWhorter (film director)
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A Kanopy streaming video
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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