What is the “duality of divergence and accord” in the field of language in China?

What will be an ideal response?

• "Younger Han people in China today mostly speak the national language, Mandarin Chinese, and also a regional variety of Chinese particular to the locality where they were brought up.
These regional dialects are often mutually unintelligible . . . [W]riting across the Chinese world as long been unified around a single system of characters . . .There are also the native languages of many minority groups," e.g., Uighur or Mongol

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a) the Baroque desire to honor the written score b) Baroque improvisation c) Baroque instrumental music d) Baroque keyboard practice

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What are the most elaborate folk rituals in Bulgaria?

a. harvests b. funerals c. holiday celebrations d. weddings

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