A less sinicised China

What if more/all of the various non Chinese languages that were spoken by subjects of the Chinese state/states survived (even if the ethnic groups that spoke them don't). Let's say they go through a Korea/Vietnam/Japan level of sinicisation but maintain some kind of civic Chinese identity seeing themselves as part of core China despite not speaking a Chinese language/dialect. How does this effect the cultural evolution of China? How does this effect those in China's orbit? how does it affect the wider world? What PODs could accomplish this?
 
You're actually talking about southern China (south of Huai River), right?
Well, in order to achieve such goal, you actually need to "wank" the pre-Sinified population of the region (e.g. their societies should be beyond clans and tribes, establishing links with Zhou China through military, economic and cultural links, etc.)
 
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In my Roman TL the Scythians successfully defeated the Turkish Xiongnu and invaded into northern China. Thus a new northern culture was formed, with Scythian influence.
 
In my Roman TL the Scythians successfully defeated the Turkish Xiongnu and invaded into northern China. Thus a new northern culture was formed, with Scythian influence.
Isn't this basically just like OTL during the Wuhu Uprising,16 Kingdoms and the Northern-Southern Dynasty period?
 
Kinda, but the Scythians I'm talking about aren't Altaic but Indo-European nomads. Also, this happened in the late 200s I believe ATL.
There were Indo-European nomads during the period IIRC.I remember reading about some of the tribes being white.One of such groups,which seems to be actually Scythian,the Jie,ended up conquering Northern China,but were eventually exterminated by Ran Min.
 
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