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.

Sifayuan language Mandarin Chinese
Grand Justice languageOfWork Mandarin Chinese
Taipei City Government languageOfWork Mandarin Chinese
Republican era languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Shun dynasty language Mandarin Chinese
JuJu Chan languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin
Tucheng District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Huludao languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Qingyuan language Mandarin Chinese
New Southbound Policy officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Tai Jeng-wu languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Tony Xu languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Tony Xu, CEO languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Tony Xu
Zhumadian language Mandarin Chinese
Jīlóng Shì languageOfName Mandarin Chinese
Jiangyin language Mandarin Chinese
Rowland Heights languageCommonlySpoken Mandarin Chinese
Shulin District officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Shichahai language Mandarin Chinese
Alice Wu language Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Saving Face
Ruifang District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Rush Hour languageSpokenInFilm Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin
Linkou District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Wulai District hasOfficialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Shaowu languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Jianyang language Mandarin Chinese
Maolin, Anhui hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Shexian dialect contrastWith Mandarin Chinese
Qimen languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chin Han languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Qimen County languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Evelyn Wang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Gong Gong languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin
Jixi languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Wuyuan language Mandarin Chinese
Oujiang Wu isDistinctFrom Mandarin Chinese
Xierqi language Mandarin Chinese
Qinghe hasOfficialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Qinghe Subdistrict
Xiuning languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Liuzhou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Tu bilingualIn Mandarin Chinese
Wudaokou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Junggar languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chʻên associatedWithLanguageVariety Mandarin Chinese
British Chinese languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chinese Australians languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chinese South Africans language Mandarin Chinese
Chan Kong-sang languagesSpoken Mandarin Chinese
this entity surface form: Mandarin