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Why Cantonese is Closer to Ancient Chinese than Mandarin

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We should make Cantonese replace the bastard Mandarin for Chinese.

 
Mandarin is dialect of northern Barbarian
 
if you rhyme and read sui, tang, and song poetry, teochew spoken in the chaoshan region is closer and makes more sense.
 
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