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Language policy
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Putonghua - the common tongue of northern Chinese - established a ‘dictatorship’ in China under Communist rule, writes James Griffiths, threatening Cantonese with the same fate as other suppressed languages.

Unesco’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger includes some spoken only in one village but others that have experienced a renaissance, such as Basque and Welsh.

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If the Education Bureau is serious about considering non-Chinese-speaking students’ needs, it should create a DSE Category A Chinese subject for second-language learners.