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Likewise, of the 700,000 She (畲) people, except for some in Huilai county of Guangdong province still using their own language, the rest have all switched to Chinese in local dialects.

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uighur.

The language model's development team discussing ... and dialogue between the Shanghai dialect and Mandarin Chinese. "Our goal extends far beyond merely teaching AI to speak Shanghainese," says ...