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Cantonese and Other Dialects
China’s territory is vast and because of this the spoken language varies from place to place, a fact that has often been noted by travelers. The Ming dynasty (1368–1644) phonologist Chen Di (1541–1617) once said, “Time has past and present, places have north and south, so too does the script change and pronunciation alter—these trends are inevitable.”