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Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This paper examines the history of four Chinese vernaculars which have developed written forms, and argues that five of the patterns Hanan identifies in the early development of Bai Hua can also be found in the early development of written Wu, Cantonese, and Minnan. In each of the cases studied, there is a clear pattern of early use of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Social Status, Self Concept

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