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China replaced their language with Mandarin. Cantonese was widely spoken until a minority Mandarin speaking rulers in Beijing forced everyone to speak Mandarin, a soulless dialect with no history. All the ancient poems are written in old Cantonese (if you read them in Mandarin they don't have any rhyme). If you compare Japanese and Cantonese, there's a lot of overlap as that's what the "Chinese" that was brought over was. There's almost no overlap between Japanese and Mandarin. There's already an instance of a short-lived government deleting a language that has thousands of years of history. I don't care what Russia does to Ukraine, it is nothing even close to as criminal as what China did to Cantonese.