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.

Johor Bahru District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Sanming language Mandarin Chinese
Terry Gou languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Tucheng District, New Taipei, Taiwan languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Tucheng District
Young Liu languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Feng County hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Ka-chiu languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: John Lee Ka-chiu
Pearl River estuary regionLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Kunshan language Mandarin Chinese
Nanping language Mandarin Chinese
Xinyang language Mandarin Chinese
Lu'an language Mandarin Chinese
Panzhihua language Mandarin Chinese
Dōngchéng Qū languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Donald Tsang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Dongxiang language influencedBy Mandarin Chinese
Dongxiang language languageShiftTowards Mandarin Chinese
Bonan language influencedBy Mandarin Chinese
Bonan language shiftedTo Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin Chinese (among younger speakers)
Shira Yugur language hasContactWith Mandarin Chinese
Monguor (Tu) language shiftTowardLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Carrie Lam languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Lüshun language Mandarin Chinese
Anshun languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Huangzhou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Keqiang nativeLanguage Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Li Keqiang
Dingyuan County, Anhui, China majorDialect Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Dingyuan County
Yingkou language Mandarin Chinese
Liupanshui language Mandarin Chinese
Nankai District hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Silver Beach languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Silver Beach (Beihai)
Weizhou Island hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Nangang District hasOfficialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Taipei Dome area languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Shantou languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Quanshan District hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Jiawang District language Mandarin Chinese
Guangshui language Mandarin Chinese
Mark Lee Ping-bing language Mandarin Chinese
Songshan District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Shilin District hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Central Plains region language Mandarin Chinese
Chengmei Bridge hasLanguageEnvironment Mandarin Chinese
Bai Ling languagesSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Shijingshan District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chiayi City, Taiwan languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Chiayi City
Xitang languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Jianghuai Guanhua subclassOf Mandarin Chinese