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Deviant++ Jan-09-2004 04:26 AM

Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
I know it's got just as big a history as my own country s thats why I'm wonderring about it.

Cajest Jan-09-2004 06:40 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
The official language in China is Mandarin, spoken by close to 700,000,000 people. There are also various dialects across China the 2 largest being Cantonese and the dialect used in the Shanghai area. The dialects are som different that often people from the Beijing area cannot understand people from the Shanghai area.

I believe China is officially atheist, but people practice daoism, buddhism, islam, christianity etc. Of the temples I saw there most were Buddhist or Daoist.

joefis Jan-09-2004 08:29 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
Under a communist government, the official religion is atheism. Since the government is the highest power. But correct me if im wrong.

BakedPotatofish Jan-09-2004 11:04 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
yes, that's correct

and to cajest, i believe the number is closer to about 900,000,000 people.

OverseasChinese Jan-10-2004 01:33 AM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
each province has its own dialect, unintelligable to other provinces, cantonese being the dialect of canton , hokkien (min) as Fujian's . chaozhou as ChaoZhou's dialect and many many others...

avantgardeo Jan-10-2004 10:07 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
Most of the people in China speak their dialects, and Mandarin and is widely spoken in Shanghai, Beijing(Beijing Mandarin) the southern part of China.

The official language is Mandarin and I'm not sure about the official religion, but I know a lot of people there are Taoists.

telly Jan-12-2004 03:05 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
A communist country should theoretically be atheist, but China isn't communist in any sence of the word. They are more capitalist than communist.

Zizou5 Feb-09-2004 10:31 PM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
ok, they are still "officiailly" atheist, and that is a fact, check the CIA factbook or whatever.

FLUCKYOU Feb-10-2004 06:58 AM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects.

Religion: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%

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Deviant++ Feb-10-2004 07:37 AM

Re: Whats china's official language and religion. ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Seinster
All in order of popularity!

Putting up covers these days are we ? ;)


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