Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ or also 中文; Zhōngwén, especially for the written language) is a group of language varieties that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China.
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There are several hundred languages in China.The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on central Mandarin, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.
The Chinese language is the group of languages used by Chinese people in China and elsewhere. It forms part of a language family called the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the main ones being Mandarin, Wu, Yue and Min.
- (1.2 billion cited 1984–2000)
- Mandarin
- Sino-Tibetan, SiniticChinese
- Chinese characters, zhuyin fuhao, pinyin, Xiao'erjing
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 .
- Middle Mandarin
- (Has begun acquiring native speakers cited 1988, 2014), L2 speakers: 7% of China (2014)
- Sino-Tibetan, ChineseMandarinBeijing dialectStandard Chinese
- China, Taiwan, Singapore
The Chinese language is the language of China-- most often referring to the Mandarin language.. Chinese language use pinyin to represent the sound. All of the Chinese languages (or dialects of one language) have at least four tones, some have eight.
The Chinese Wikipedia was established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001. At the beginning, however, the Chinese Wikipedia did not support Chinese characters, and had no encyclopedic content. In October 2002, the first Chinese-language page was written, the Main Page. A software update on 27 October 2002 allowed Chinese language input.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chinese languages.: Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M Chinese-language movies (2 P)
Qiu, Xigui (২০০০), Chinese Writing, trans. Gilbert Louis Mattos and Jerry Norman (sinologist), Society for the Study of Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California , Berkeley, আইএসবিএন 978-1-55729-071-7.
The Chinese language is the group of languages used by Chinese people in China and elsewhere. It forms part of a language family called the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the main ones being Mandarin, Wu, Yue and Min.