Hello,
Sheng Jiong wrote:
is, all Chinese dialects other than Mandarin remain a spoken language, and extremely few books/articles/etc. are published in dialects.
...citation? How do you know? From what studies are you pulling this information from? You can't just say it and assume it to be true.
I mean, many printed ads in Hong Kong that are written in Cantonese/Yue, using puns and so on. Many slogans of those products are written in Cantonese/Yue. The most recent example I can think of, in fact, is a government ad (from the Equal Opportunity Committee) trying to discourage racism.
fact we do not even know what writing system we should use should there be a Chinese dialect Wikipedia.
Well, I would suggest Hanzi script first and consider whether we should do the romanization later on, though I think romanization would be too confusing to really be useful.
little Alex