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

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (713)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chenzhou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Wade–Giles language Mandarin Chinese
Greater China hasPrimaryLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Peng Ming-min languageOfWorkOrName Mandarin Chinese
James Hong languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Taicang, Jiangsu language Mandarin Chinese
Duodao District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chinatown language Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Chinatown (Boston)
this entity surface form: Mandarin
Lucy Liu languagesSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Xiaonan District majorLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Chongwenmen languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Jiujiang language Mandarin Chinese
Julu Road hasLanguageEnvironment Mandarin Chinese
Xinzhuang languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Danzhou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Lüshunkou language Mandarin Chinese
Dongsi hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Mianyang language Mandarin Chinese
Miaohang Town languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Shuangcheng Road Subdistrict hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Shangrao language Mandarin Chinese
Xian'an District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chang Yung-fa languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Xiangtan County language Mandarin Chinese
Ji'an language Mandarin Chinese
Indian Singaporeans languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Deyang languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Seremban majorLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Zhuyin writingSystemFor Mandarin Chinese
Zhuyin primarilyAssociatedWith Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Taiwanese Mandarin
Ezhou language Mandarin Chinese
MOE languageOfWork Mandarin Chinese
Leshan languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Tongyong Pinyin language Mandarin Chinese
Gucun Town hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
East District, Tainan hasOfficialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Annan District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Yongkang District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chángzhēng language Mandarin Chinese
Peng Yuchang languageOfWorkOrName Mandarin Chinese
Ding associatedLanguage Mandarin Chinese
OMNI.2 languageOfProgramming Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin
South District, Tainan officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Wujin District hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese