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- Chinese_language abstract "Unless otherwise specified, Chinese texts in this article are written in (Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese; Pinyin) format. In cases where Simplified and Traditional Chinese scripts are identical, the Chinese term is written once.Chinese (汉语 or 漢語, Hànyǔ) is a group of related language varieties, several of which are not mutually intelligible, and is variously described as a language or language family. Originally the indigenous speech of the Han majority in China, Chinese forms one of the branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family and is now spoken by many Chinese ethnic groups. About one-fifth of the world's population, or over one billion people, speaks some form of Chinese as their first language.Varieties of Chinese are usually perceived by native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and sinologists.The internal diversity of Chinese has been likened to that of the Romance languages, although all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin (about 960 million), followed by Wu (80 million), Yue (60 million) and Min (50 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.Standard Chinese (Putonghua / Guoyu / Huayu) is a standardized form of spoken Chinese based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. It is the official language of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The logogrammic written form of the standard language (Zhōngwén 中文) is shared by literate speakers of otherwise unintelligible dialects.Of the other varieties of Chinese, Cantonese (the prestige variety of Yue) is influential in Guangdong province and Cantonese-speaking overseas communities and remains one of the official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macau (together with Portuguese). Min Nan, part of the Min group, is widely spoken in southern Fujian, in neighbouring Taiwan (where it is known as Taiwanese or Hoklo) and in Southeast Asia (also known as Hokkien in the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia). There are also sizeable Hakka and Shanghainese diasporas, for example in Taiwan, where most Hakka communities are also conversant in Taiwanese and Standard Chinese.".
- Chinese_language iso6391Code "zh".
- Chinese_language iso6393Code "zho".
- Chinese_language languageFamily Sinitic_languages.
- Chinese_language languageRegulator Chinese_Language_Standardisation_Council_of_Malaysia.
- Chinese_language languageRegulator National_Languages_Committee.
- Chinese_language languageRegulator Promote_Mandarin_Council.
- Chinese_language languageRegulator Speak_Mandarin_Campaign.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Canada.
- Chinese_language spokenIn China.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Hong_Kong.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Indonesia.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Macau.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Malaysia.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Overseas_Chinese.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Singapore.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Taiwan.
- Chinese_language spokenIn United_States.
- Chinese_language spokenIn Vietnam.
- Chinese_language thumbnail Hanyu_trad_simp.svg?width=300.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink books?id=ERnrQq0bsPYC&pg=PA43.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink books?id=sD-MFTUiPYgC&pg=PA120.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink books?id=bjJBrKfCKIYC&pg=PA65.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink books?id=k2tX-KFeuaQC&pg=PA98.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink books?id=pfb2QHJtw54C&pg=PA23.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink ctext.org.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink spp007_old_chinese.pdf.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink spp029_chinese_dialect.pdf.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink Chinese-languages.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink tien-hsia.php?searchterm=025_sinophone.inc&issue=025.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink language-borrowing.
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink www.ethnologue.com..
- Chinese_language wikiPageExternalLink Content.php?page=Chinese.
- Chinese_language wikiPageID "5751".
- Chinese_language wikiPageRevisionID "605515543".
- Chinese_language agency "Chinese Language Standardisation Council".
- Chinese_language agency "National Commission on Language and Script Work".
- Chinese_language agency "National Languages Committee".
- Chinese_language agency "Promote Mandarin Council/Speak Mandarin Campaign".
- Chinese_language c "中文".
- Chinese_language date "1984".
- Chinese_language dia Gan_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Hakka_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Huizhou_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Jin_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Mandarin_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Min_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Pinghua.
- Chinese_language dia Wu_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Xiang_Chinese.
- Chinese_language dia Yue_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ethnicity Han_Chinese.
- Chinese_language fam Sinitic_languages.
- Chinese_language familycolor "Sino-Tibetan".
- Chinese_language glotto "sini1245".
- Chinese_language h "Chung-Vun".
- Chinese_language h "Hon Ngi".
- Chinese_language hasPhotoCollection Chinese_language.
- Chinese_language imagecaption "Hànyǔ written in traditional and simplified Hanzi".
- Chinese_language iso "zh".
- Chinese_language iso "zho".
- Chinese_language iso2b "chi".
- Chinese_language iso2t "zho".
- Chinese_language j "Hon3 jyu5".
- Chinese_language j "Zung1 man4*2".
- Chinese_language l "Chinese text".
- Chinese_language lc "cdo".
- Chinese_language lc "cjy".
- Chinese_language lc "cmn".
- Chinese_language lc "cpx".
- Chinese_language lc "czh".
- Chinese_language lc "czo".
- Chinese_language lc "gan".
- Chinese_language lc "hak".
- Chinese_language lc "hsn".
- Chinese_language lc "ltc".
- Chinese_language lc "lzh".
- Chinese_language lc "mnp".
- Chinese_language lc "nan".
- Chinese_language lc "och".
- Chinese_language lc "wuu".
- Chinese_language lc "yue".
- Chinese_language ld Classical_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Gan_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Hakka_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Huizhou_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Jin_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Mandarin_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Middle_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Min_Bei.
- Chinese_language ld Min_Dong.
- Chinese_language ld Min_Nan.
- Chinese_language ld Min_Zhong.
- Chinese_language ld Old_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Pu-Xian_Min.
- Chinese_language ld Wu_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Xiang_Chinese.
- Chinese_language ld Yue_Chinese.
- Chinese_language lingua "79".
- Chinese_language map "New-Map-Sinophone World.PNG".