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Govt orders limits on Cantonese in media - People's Daily Online

Still today, they mostly live in Northern China. You claimed they spread across all over China.

Why should I tell you about it? You are not fit for an intellectual discussion, go find your answer from wiki or blog. That's where you belong. Go discuss about your 22 languages, if you have issues and confusion about your identity and culture, it is not the chinese fault. Blame Turk-mongols!
 
Liaoning, Hebei and Beijing, were Han dominated areas before the Qing dynasty and still are today. They are part of northern China. The Manchu bannermen moved into there from Jilin and Heilonjiang (the provinces on the Russian and Korean borders) and they adopted Chinese language. Most of them do not live in their ancestral homeland in Heilongjiang and Jilin.

The last of the Manchus: Et tu, Manchu? | The Economist

One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
Oct 8th 2011 | SANJIAZI |From the print edition

A CENTURY ago it was the “national language” of a vast empire. Today Manchu mixes with cigarette smoke blown through the wrinkled lips of 86-year-old Zhao Lanfeng in Sanjiazi, a village in China's north-east. The words she croaks in her thatch-roofed, mud-brick farmhouse are precious. Ms Zhao (pictured) calls herself one of only two fluent native speakers of Manchu left in the village, one of the last redoubts of a language that is verging on extinction.

Even in 1911, when the hated Manchu rulers of China's last imperial Qing dynasty were overthrown, the language was national only in name. Manchus formed only about 2% of the country's population at the time. Most people spoke Chinese, the language of the majority Han people who were conquered in 1644 by the Manchus, a collection of ethnic groups from the country's borderlands in what was once known as Manchuria. Even the last Manchu emperor, Puyi (who was six when he abdicated), was far from fluent, despite the court's dogged efforts to keep the language alive.

Hundreds if not thousands of Manchu civilians, many of whom lived in separate communities walled off from their Han neighbours, were massacred during the revolution by vengeful Han troops. Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution. But in some remote rural areas Manchu ways held out longer. In Sanjiazi, descendants of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents. Ms Zhao grew up speaking Manchu.

Hers was the last generation to do so. In 1979 there were 50 fluent speakers left. The two remaining (the other is also 86) sometimes chat to each other in Manchu. But Ms Zhao says the last time this happened was about four months ago. A few others in Sanjiazi speak a bit of Manchu. But in all of China, there are only a handful of people like Ms Zhao.

Few Chinese have any interest in learning the dying language of their one-time oppressors. Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2m out of 10m Qing documents in the country's collection are written in Manchu. Yet he estimates there are only about 30 scholars in China who are truly expert in the language. Knowledge of the language is kept up mainly by people like him who belong to the Xibo people from China's far north-west. The Xibo language is very close to Manchu, but Mr Wu says only about 20,000 speak it and their numbers are rapidly diminishing too.

About six years ago Sanjiazi set up the country's first Manchu school. But Ms Zhao does not think this will make much difference. The Manchu teachers, she says, do not understand her Manchu. A big sign outside the village proclaims it as a “living fossil” of the language. Soon it might be a dead one.
 
Liaoning, Hebei and Beijing, were Han dominated areas before the Qing dynasty and still are today. They are part of northern China. The Manchu bannermen moved into there from Jilin and Heilonjiang (the provinces on the Russian and Korean borders) and they adopted Chinese language. Most of them do not live in their ancestral homeland in Heilongjiang and Jilin.

The more you tell him, he will learn, find news article by a free tibet or western editorial and come up with more twisted chinese history and troll you later.
Don't u realize that, 你在明 他在暗.
 
The last of the Manchus: Et tu, Manchu? | The Economist

One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
Oct 8th 2011 | SANJIAZI |From the print edition

A CENTURY ago it was the “national language” of a vast empire. Today Manchu mixes with cigarette smoke blown through the wrinkled lips of 86-year-old Zhao Lanfeng in Sanjiazi, a village in China's north-east. The words she croaks in her thatch-roofed, mud-brick farmhouse are precious. Ms Zhao (pictured) calls herself one of only two fluent native speakers of Manchu left in the village, one of the last redoubts of a language that is verging on extinction.

Even in 1911, when the hated Manchu rulers of China's last imperial Qing dynasty were overthrown, the language was national only in name. Manchus formed only about 2% of the country's population at the time. Most people spoke Chinese, the language of the majority Han people who were conquered in 1644 by the Manchus, a collection of ethnic groups from the country's borderlands in what was once known as Manchuria. Even the last Manchu emperor, Puyi (who was six when he abdicated), was far from fluent, despite the court's dogged efforts to keep the language alive.

Hundreds if not thousands of Manchu civilians, many of whom lived in separate communities walled off from their Han neighbours, were massacred during the revolution by vengeful Han troops. Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution. But in some remote rural areas Manchu ways held out longer. In Sanjiazi, descendants of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents. Ms Zhao grew up speaking Manchu.

Hers was the last generation to do so. In 1979 there were 50 fluent speakers left. The two remaining (the other is also 86) sometimes chat to each other in Manchu. But Ms Zhao says the last time this happened was about four months ago. A few others in Sanjiazi speak a bit of Manchu. But in all of China, there are only a handful of people like Ms Zhao.

Few Chinese have any interest in learning the dying language of their one-time oppressors. Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2m out of 10m Qing documents in the country's collection are written in Manchu. Yet he estimates there are only about 30 scholars in China who are truly expert in the language. Knowledge of the language is kept up mainly by people like him who belong to the Xibo people from China's far north-west. The Xibo language is very close to Manchu, but Mr Wu says only about 20,000 speak it and their numbers are rapidly diminishing too.

About six years ago Sanjiazi set up the country's first Manchu school. But Ms Zhao does not think this will make much difference. The Manchu teachers, she says, do not understand her Manchu. A big sign outside the village proclaims it as a “living fossil” of the language. Soon it might be a dead one.

The status off official language did not mean it was spoken widely Yindoo, most bannermen entirely forgot their native language. They could only be distinguihsed by their surnames. 1911 Xinhai Revolution also has nothing to do with Communists taking over in 1949.

Learn geography Yindoo. Sanjiazi is in heilonjiang.

Sanjiazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
@Hafizzz worry about Islam and the "ummah" instead of India you obsessed retard. Even Tamils here are denying everything you are saying. :omghaha:
 
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Why should I tell you about it? You are not fit for an intellectual discussion, go find your answer from wiki or blog. That's where you belong. Go discuss about your 22 languages, if you have issues and confusion about your identity and culture, it is not the chinese fault. Blame Turk-mongols!


That's people's daily. Your government suppresses regional languages. :cheesy:

These are some government's TV channels in Indian Languages.
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Mr Punjabi you should worry more about getting Independence for your country Khalistan than worry about Islam.

Well, for building Khalistan we need majority pakistani punjabi land and the indian punjabi land .So muslims will have to suffer more for khalistan as majority punjab land is in pakistan....so we have to worry about islam
 
Well, for building Khalistan we need majority pakistani punjabi land and the indian punjabi land .So muslims will have to suffer more for khalistan as majority punjab land is in pakistan....so we have to worry about islam

Khalistan is all inside India.
 
Mr Punjabi you should worry more about getting Independence for your country Khalistan than worry about Islam.

We don't want Khalistan, we are happy to be Indian. Don't even get me started on Bangladesh.:laughcry: You Lungi bastards.
 
I have dozens of Tamil coworkers who speak very good Hindi... also Malyalis and Kannads too speak Hindi.. and who told you that Tamils are expected to know Hindi? I never came across anyone...You advocate English! whereas these days learning Chinese and Korian is the need of the hour as most of our business is in these countries........
 
The status off official language did not mean it was spoken widely Yindoo, most bannermen entirely forgot their native language. They could only be distinguihsed by their surnames. 1911 Xinhai Revolution also has nothing to do with Communists taking over in 1949.

Learn geography Yindoo. Sanjiazi is in heilonjiang.

Sanjiazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manchus had to suppress their identity to escape from persecutions from Hans.

Hundreds if not thousands of Manchu civilians, many of whom lived in separate communities walled off from their Han neighbours, were massacred during the revolution by vengeful Han troops. Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution.
 
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