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.

It's an encouraging shift for advocates who argue language can also be a carrier of culture. Cantonese and Mandarin, also called Putonghua, are distinct from each other. Many people think Chinese ...

Ethnic minority students in Hong Kong lack Cantonese support in schools ... “Many schools just ask the Chinese teacher to teach the language to ethnic minority students. But teaching Chinese ...