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      • There has been a steady influx of Chinese emigrants to the Philippines since the late 1970s. Most are from Fujian, but some come from Guangxi, Shangdong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, and other places outside Fujian and Canton, and speak Mandarin. The majority of Mandarin Chinese live in the Chinatown of Binondo, Manila.
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  2. Mandarin Chinese is the primary formal Chinese language taught academically to Chinese Filipinos in Chinese Filipino schools and across other schools and institutions in the Philippines, especially as the formal written Chinese language.

  3. Philippine Hokkien is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts ...

  4. The Mandarin dialect group consists of closely related varieties of Chinese spoken natively across most of northern and southwestern China, a form based on the Beijing dialect has been established as the national standard and is official in the People's Republic of China, and form based on the Taipei dialect in the Republic of China and Singapore .

  5. Jun 14, 2019 · Mandarin emerged as the language of the ruling class during the latter part of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). The capital of China switched from Nanjing to Beijing in the latter part of the Ming Dynasty and remained in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Since Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect, it naturally became the ...

  6. Old Chinese. Old Chinese, sometimes known as "Archaic Chinese", is genetically related to all current Chinese languages. The first known use of the Chinese writing system is divinatory inscriptions into tortoise shells and oracle bones during the Shang dynasty (1766–1122 BCE). [8] During the first half of the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BCE ...

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