Chinese: Other Dialects

[PeekDinosaur]

Does anyone know if there will be a Toi Shan or Cantonese Duolingo? These languages are losing popularity, and I think they should not become obsolete just because China is forcing everyone to learn Mandarin. Of course, thank you to the people who finally released the Mandarin course for Chinese.

[FreeHelicopters]

Cantonese is not a dialect of Mandarin, Cantonese is its own language. Communist call it a dialect that's pure propaganda to kill a culture and language.

sorry if that comes off as political but Cantonese is its own language, as language learners we should respect that and not repeat the communist propaganda.

[Experience_XP]

He didn't say that Cantonese was a dialect of Mandarin. Cantonese and Toi Shan are dialects of Chinese, just as Mandarin is a dialect. I am a Cantonese speaker.

[Woof.]

Duolingo doesn't have plans to release other Chinese dialects in the future, unfortunately.

[piguy3]

Doesn't /currently/ have. There are some issues of course adding languages that don't have a 100% agreed-to written form, but Guaraní (Jopará) doesn't, either, and yet it's here.