Mandarin
major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
Episodes
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#5170: How Many Languages Sit in the Middle?Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them? -
#5172: Who Decides When a Dialect Becomes a Language?Languages fork like codebases — and the merge button doesn't exist. Who actually decides when a dialect becomes its own language?