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		<title>Cantonese being the national language? Why not?</title>
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The reason that Mandarin became a national language has to do with the political power vested in the Northerners and that the capital is at Beijing.  If Sun Yat Sen, after he overthrew the Qing government were to start the national capital in Guangdong province, would that make Cantonese the national language?
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