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多 vs 哆,Do they sound the same?
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tooironic:
... "is there truly one standard Putonghua?"....

Contemporaneously, Yas;
Historically, No.

Long long ago, the word 国家 (nation, country) was pronounce as [guoga] or something similar
to that. And that was introduced into Korean peninsula and remained there anchanged. The
pronunciation also remained unchanged or changed tilttle in many dielects of Chinese (such
Cantonese), which in the language now called Putonghua it changed to sound [guojia].
Many characters and words have such stories. That is what we mean by:
There is no absolutely right thing in language historically, as it keeps changing. Isn't it the
same in English?

But comtemporaneously, there are authorities, there is majority, so there is standard.

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