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There are also many countries where the primary language is the same only because of concerted efforts by the central government to force it upon everyone and to wipe out regional languages and dialects, usually in the past couple centuries or so. France, Spain, Italy are all examples.


Mandarin is another example. Not easy to find a Cantonese dictionary despite having more speakers than Italian.




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