Southern Chinese dialects -Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Hakka -have received little official support from the governments of the nations where Chinese is spoken; they are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, and are often deeply stigmatized. Although China's language wars have paralleled cold war hostilities, unofficial forces in the 1990s are rapidly enhancing dialect prestige, as an economic boom increasingly links the "Greater China" of the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. (Chinese dialects, Mandarin, Cantonese, Min, Hakka, bilingualism, Hong Kong, Taiwan, official language)*
Cantonese uses over five times more sortal classifiers (,extended object' tiuh 条) than Mandarin to describe Chafe's 'Pear Stories' film. Forty percent of nouns appear without a classifier. Just 18% of Cantonese nouns and 3% of Mandarin take a sortal. Stories are near-identical. Classifiers reveal differences in grammar, not cognition.
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