Re: dialectal diversity in English

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Is Chinese history that poorly known that a major depopulation event a mere
> 400 years ago has to be infered from linguistic data? Odd ...
China's an awfully big place, and unlike Europe (with which it may be roughly
compared in size and scope, at least until modern times) it had only one
center point.  What happened in the provinces often didn't make it to the
historians in Beijing.

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