1) German language
The modern German language is actually a somewhat artificial construct, as to unify the dialect and create one, common German language. Before this, many places each had their own dialects, and especially in the South, the dialects are often still spoken (along with the standard)
2) Galician - currently Galician has 3 standards, but there are efforts to create one standard, in order to strenghten the language's presence in Spain (but it's problematic since many speakers don't identify with the standard as much as with their own dialect)
I think the answer is Ionian Sea
Answer:
The Nationalist movement included many Communists as part of the Sun Yat Sen's revolution in 1911. The Republican Government was in charge in Beijing but China is a very large and fractious place. The Republic inherited a very bad Foreign Affairs situation. The "unequal treaties" left the Central Government tied to many bad deals with Foreign Governments. The Japanese were claiming a larger and larger area of China for themselves.
Explanation:
Europeans mainly wanted a sea route to Asia for trade. Their difficulties include a very limited understanding of the Americas (they didn’t even know such place existed) and Far East, and they did not know the cure for scurvy
