Mandarin Chinese
E181408
Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken variety of Chinese and a major world language used across mainland China, Taiwan, and many overseas Chinese communities.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mandarin Chinese canonical | 682 |
| Mandarin | 21 |
| Putonghua | 5 |
| Taiwanese Mandarin | 3 |
| Chinese | 1 |
| Mandarin Chinese (among younger speakers) | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sinitic language
ⓘ
macrolanguage ⓘ variety of Chinese ⓘ |
| hasCaseInflection | no ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender | no ⓘ |
| hasPluralInflection | limited ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin | Northern Chinese dialects ⓘ |
| influenced | various East and Southeast Asian languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | zh ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | cmn ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Sino-Tibetan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Sino-Tibetan
|
| lexifierFor | Chinese Pidgin English ⓘ |
| mostWidelySpokenVarietyOf | Chinese ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers |
over 1 billion total speakers
ⓘ
over 900 million native speakers ⓘ |
| numberOfTones | four lexical tones plus a neutral tone ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
Republic of China ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Singapore ⓘ United Nations ⓘ |
| primaryDialectRegion |
North China
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern China
Southwest China ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern China
|
| primaryPhonologicalSystem | tonal language ⓘ |
| primaryScriptInHongKongAndMacau |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
surface form:
Traditional Chinese characters
|
| primaryScriptInMainlandChina | Simplified Chinese characters ⓘ |
| primaryScriptInTaiwan | Traditional Chinese characters ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| regulatingBody |
Ministry of Education of the ROC
ⓘ
surface form:
Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
National Language Commission of the PRC ⓘ
surface form:
National Language Commission of China
|
| romanizationSystem |
Hanyu Pinyin
ⓘ
Wade–Giles ⓘ Zhuyin ⓘ
surface form:
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)
|
| spokenIn |
Indonesia
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
Mainland China
Malaysia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| standardVariety |
Guoyu
ⓘ
Huayu ⓘ Mandarin Chinese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Putonghua
Standard Chinese ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Mandarin
|
| subfamily |
Chinese language
ⓘ
surface form:
Sinitic
|
| UNLanguageStatus | one of six official UN languages ⓘ |
| usesClassifiers | yes ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Chinese characters
ⓘ
Simplified Chinese characters ⓘ Traditional Chinese characters ⓘ |
Referenced by (713)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mandarin
this entity surface form:
Chinese
this entity surface form:
Mandarin
this entity surface form:
Putonghua