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   What is a Chinese language?

   • "Chinese" is a blanket term covering many different varieties spoken across China. Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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   What language is spoken in China?

   • Mandarin language, the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population. Mandarin Chinese is often divided into four subgroups: Northern

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   Is Cantonese a Chinese language?

   • Cantonese is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese group, which has over 82.4 million native speakers.

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   Is Standard Chinese a Chinese language?

   • Standard Chinese is an official language of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and was first officially adopted in the 1930s.

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   1 day ago · Chinese language. Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [i] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

   • Jin

     The Jin dynasty (/ dʒ ɪ n /,; Chinese: 金朝; pinyin: Jīn...

   • Standard Chinese

     Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional...

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   May 16, 2024 · Mandarin language, the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population. Mandarin Chinese is often divided into four subgroups: Northern.

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   2 days ago · Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers. [1]

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   May 19, 2024 · 中文維基百科 是 網絡百科全書 維基百科 開放式協同合作 計劃的 中文 版本，使用中文 橫式書寫 ，為 維基媒體計劃 中維基百科的一個語言分支。. 中文維基百科成立於2002年10月24日，由 非營利組織 維基媒體基金會 維持運作。. 截至2024年5月21日，中文維基百科 ...

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   4 days ago · 中文维基百科使用 汉字 书写，汉字是 汉族 或 华人 的共同 文字 ，是 中国大陆 、 新加坡 、 马来西亚 、 台湾 、 香港 、 澳门 的唯一 官方文字 或官方文字之一。 中文维基百科的编辑者來自于世界各地的漢語使用者，根据2006年9月初维基百科对各语言版本的编辑者來源的统计结果，香港的编辑者占28.6%、台湾占25.9%，而 美国 和 荷兰 则分別占13.7%及8.2%。