Discuss the issue of languages across East Asia, being certain to identify regions with linguistic diversity.
What will be an ideal response?
While Japan and Korean peninsula are largely monolingual with Japanese and Korean, respectively, China exhibits a great deal of linguistic diversity. The primary language spoken in China is Mandarin Chinese, spoken by at least 800 million people. The vast size of China ensures several mutually unintelligible dialects of Chinese as well as several variants, most notably in southern China where Cantonese in primarily spoken. Several of the border provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan contain dozens of non-Chinese languages spoken by millions of people. The border regions with Mongolia as well as the Tibetan Plateau are also distinctly non-Chinese speaking regions of China.
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