now in the Civil Service of Wongkong,
Know patois.
3. only the Cantonese dialect, or.
Your Lordship is doubtless already aware that there is but one national and written language throughout the Empire of China, which is known to Europeans as the "Mandarin", official language, but that it is spoken with such great variations of pronunciation and dialect in the different provinces that, for example, the dialect of Peking is unintelligible at Canton, and vice versa. By way of illustration, (though the circumstances are not quite similar in all respects), I may mention the parallel case in Italy. In Italy, (as we all know), as in China, there is one National literary and official language, which is, practically, the dialect of Tuscany as pronounced at Rome. But the mass of the people in the several Provinces speak dialects differing very much from each other and from the National language. For instance, the Piedmontese dialect.
"In the Italian phrase,— La Lingua Toscana in bocca Romana.
"Mandarin is a term applied by Europeans to the Official class in China, but unknown to the Chinese themselves.
now in the Civil Service of Wongkong,
Know
patois.
3.
only
the Cantonese dialect, or.
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Your Lordship is
doubtless already
aware that there is
but one national and written language throughout the Empire of China, which
is known to Europeans, as the Mandarin",
official language, but that it is __
of
spoken with such great variations
· pronunciation and dialext in
of
different provinces that, for example,
the dialest of Peking is unintelligible
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at
" Mandarin is a
wese torm, applied by Europeans to the Official class in China, but unknown to the Chinese themselves.
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at Canton, and vice versa. By way of
illustration, (though the circumstances.
are not quite similar in all respects). I may mention the parallel case
Staty. In Italy,
(as we all know),
of
, as in China, there is
as
one National literary
of
and official language, which is, — -practically, the dialect of Tuscany as pronounced at Rome. But the mass the people in the several Provinces speak dialeats differing very
much from each other and from the National
language. For instance, the lied montese
dialect
"In the Italian phrase,- La Lingua Joseand in __
bocea Romana.
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