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Chinese / Mandarin language

Chinese / Mandarin: Most widely spoken language in China known as Putonghua. Also, official language of Taiwan. Other names of Mandarin are Putonghua, Guoyu, and Huayu

Number of Chinese / Mandarin Speakers: Around one billion.

Chinese / Mandarin Speakers: In addition to China, in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Russia.

Language Classification: Member of Sino-Tibetan language family.

Chinese / Mandarin Dialects: Primarily five dialects based on regions. Some dialects are almost totally different language rather than dialects.

Chinese / Mandarin Orthography: Chinese alphabet is composed of logographs (pictographs and ideographs). Words are composed of one or two morphemes.

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Chinese / Mandarin Alphabet: Chinese alphabet contains characters developed 4,000 years ago.

Chinese / Mandarin Language History: Chinese history along with its languages goes back to 1500 BC.

Chinese / Mandarin Standardization Efforts: Early 20th century. Modern standard Chinese adopted in 1956.

Unique Features of Chinese / Mandarin: Significant difference between written and spoken Mandarin. Mandarin is the simplest language among all other languages and dialects spoken in China.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Chinese / Mandarin language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Mandarin.

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