- Chinese language - Wikipedia
The Chinese government considers the spoken varieties of the Chinese languages dialects of a single language However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are considered to be separate languages in a family by linguists
- Languages of China - Wikipedia
The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, 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
- History of the Chinese language - Wikipedia
Old Chinese, sometimes known as "Archaic Chinese", is ancestral 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)
- Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia
Within Chinese social or cultural discourse, there is not a "Mandarin" identity based on language; rather, there are strong regional identities centred on individual dialects because of the wide geographical distribution and cultural diversity of their speakers
- List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
In the context of the written language, written modern standard Chinese is usually understood to be the official standard, though different territories use different standard scripts, namely traditional characters and simplified characters Today, Chinese has an official language status in three countries and two territories
- Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia
Standard Chinese takes its phonology from the Beijing dialect, with vocabulary from the Mandarin group and grammar based on literature in the modern written vernacular It is one of the official languages of China and Taiwan and one of the four official languages of Singapore
- Chinese language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 languages | History, Characteristics, Dialects, Types, Facts . . .
Chinese languages, principal language group of eastern Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family Chinese exists in a number of varieties that are popularly called dialects but that are usually classified as separate languages by scholars
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