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In the book, The Middle kingdom: a survey of the ... Chinese empire and its inhabitants ..., published in 1848, the different varieties of Chinese were described as "dialects". The book acknowledged that they were mutually unintelligible and that the term "dialect" was used in a different sense than the western term, in which a dialect was merely indicative of a small difference in pronunciation, while in China, the entire grammar and idiom were different; the written language was what united the different Chinese dialects. The difference between Mandarin and other Chinese "dialects" is easily comparable to that between English and its Germanic cousin languages (German, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, etc.)

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