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Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; pinyin: Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ; lit. 'modern standard Han speech') is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
Standard Chinese is the standard language of China (where it is called 普通话; pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called either 华语; 華語; Huáyǔ or 汉语; 漢語; Hànyǔ). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
- Sino-Tibetan Languages
- Standard Chinese Is An Artificial Language
- The Political Controversy of ‘The Main Chinese Language’
The language family that Standard Chinese is ultimately part of is‘Sino-Tibetan’.Equivalents to this include huge categories like ‘Indo-European’(every language in Europe plus huge swathes of western and central Asia)and ‘Afro-Asiatic’ (the whole northern half of Africa and a big chunk of theMiddle East). You can see the geographic region covered b...
Saying Standard Chinese is artificial might seem like quite a bold statement ifyou’re not aware of this, but really it’s quite an accurate way to describe thelanguage. Standard Chinese has never been a language that developed entirelyorganically. Instead it’s to some extent a planned language that was designedby language experts. As you’ve seen abo...
As you might imagine, all of this is hugely controversial, at the very least forpeople interested in linguistics. Aside from what to classify as a language, adialect and an accent, there’s the issue of who gets to decide what StandardChinese is, what ‘the main Chinese language is, why they have that right andwhether or not they should continue to h...
Mandarin Chinese in the form spoken in and around Beijing forms the basis for Modern Standard Chinese —Guoyu, “National Language,” usually called putonghua “common language” by the Chinese. Modern Standard Chinese is also spoken officially on Taiwan.
Standard Chinese is the official language of China [4] and Taiwan, [5] as well as one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is also used as one of the official languages of the United Nations. [6] .
Standard Chinese, or Standard Mandarin, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan and is one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is based off the Mandarin dialect and should not be confused with other varieties of Chinese.
The Standard Chinese language is referred to as Mandarin in English, " Pǔtōnghuà " or "common to everybody speech" in mainland China and " Guóyǔ " or "language of the whole country" in Taiwan. All official documents in Pinyin are written in Mandarin and Mandarin is taught all over China.
