Sinitic languages
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Sinitic languages".
Sep 3, 2026
The Battle for Taiwan
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17:00Thomas SmallHOST
So, they're connected to Filipinos, Indonesians, Hawaiians, people like that, not Sinic people, the mainland Chinese people.
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17:09Chris HortonGUEST
Sinitic people, yeah.
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17:10Chris HortonGUEST
I'm not sure about the actual numbers, but I think roughly 2% of Taiwan's population is indigenous.
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17:16Chris HortonGUEST
But also, just as you have in settler colonial states like the United States or Canada, you have a lot of people who, you know, they've got some indigenous blood, but it goes way back, right? It goes back centuries.
Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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18:13Yuri PinesGUEST
And this was the end of this interstate system.
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18:16Yuri PinesGUEST
And here come the two new players from the Southeast, the state of Wu, and later the state of Yue, which originally were not Sinitic groups.
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18:26Yuri PinesGUEST
They spoke a different language.
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18:27Yuri PinesGUEST
They did not belong to the common Zhou civilization.
Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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18:28Yuri PinesGUEST
And this was the end of this interstate system.
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18:31Yuri PinesGUEST
And here come the two new players from the Southeast, the state of Wu and later the state of Yue, which originally were not Sinitic groups.
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18:41Yuri PinesGUEST
They spoke a different language.
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18:42Yuri PinesGUEST
They did not belong to the common Zhou civilization.
Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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18:13Yuri PinesGUEST
And this was the end of this interstate system.
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18:16Yuri PinesGUEST
And here come the two new players from the Southeast, the state of Wu and later the state of Yue, which originally were not Sinitic groups.
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18:26Yuri PinesGUEST
They spoke a different language.
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18:27Yuri PinesGUEST
They did not belong to the common Zhou civilization.
Yuri Pines, "China's Aristocratic Age: Politics and Power in the Springs-and-Autumns Period" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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17:01Yuri PinesGUEST
And here come the two new players from the Southeast, the state of Wu, and later the state of Yue.
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17:08Yuri PinesGUEST
which originally were not Sinitic groups.
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17:11Yuri PinesGUEST
They spoke a different language.
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17:12Yuri PinesGUEST
They did not belong to the common Zhou civilization.