Beijing Dialect - Mutual Intelligibility With Other Mandarin Dialects

Mutual Intelligibility With Other Mandarin Dialects

Dungan language speakers like Iasyr Shivaza and others have reported that Chinese who speak Beijing dialect can understand Dungan, but Dungans could not understand the Beijing Mandarin.

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