File talk:Map of sinitic languages-en.svg
Hong Kong[edit]
People speak Cantonese there. Mrmariokartguy (talk) 15:17, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
- Location of Hong Kong is placed wrongly despite update, it should be by Pearl River Estuary (right below Guangzhou) rather its current location by Lufeng,_Shanwei. Unfortunately my GIMP software seemed powerless in changing that. Could anyone with better image-processing-fu would fix that please? 28481k (talk) 17:01, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Outdated/Incomplete?[edit]
From where does this map get its information? The captions say this is a "historic" distribution, but what period of history does this show? Also, Western China is completely missing in this map. The maps at Mandarin Chinese show that at least Mandarin is very widely spoken in the Gansu Corridor and in Xinjiang. Quigley (talk) 20:44, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
- Someone deliberately avoided minority areas when possible, with the exception of the jin dialect, since inner mongolia would have taken up a too big chunk to have been excluded. if you look at taiwan, even though taiwan dialect is spoken in much of the center of the island, it was excluded, probably as a nod to the original Formosan Aboriginals inhabitants since they were the natives even though they are only 2% of the population.Дунгане (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
- I am unsure about the Mainland China situation, however the Taiwan mapping is accurate. If you visit the mountain regions there, you will hear the Formosan Aboriginal languages being spoken, not Taiwanese - despite the fact that they comprise 2% of the population. This is because most Chinese & Taiwanese people live on the plains. The Hakka live on the hill areas but not on the high mountains. The younger generation of aboriginals understand Mandarin but not necessarily Taiwanese; nevertheless they speak their own languages at home. --A-eng (talk) 07:21, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
- Someone deliberately avoided minority areas when possible, with the exception of the jin dialect, since inner mongolia would have taken up a too big chunk to have been excluded. if you look at taiwan, even though taiwan dialect is spoken in much of the center of the island, it was excluded, probably as a nod to the original Formosan Aboriginals inhabitants since they were the natives even though they are only 2% of the population.Дунгане (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
