Mandarin Chinese

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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.

Anqing languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Kuqa modernLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Peter Lim languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Yami language usedAlongside Mandarin Chinese
Yami language hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Mandarin Chinese
Bengbu language Mandarin Chinese
Qianjiang hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Chéngdū languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Chengdu
Mei-ling languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Soong Mei-ling
Zhu Rongji languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Aksu hasLanguageCommunity Mandarin Chinese
Dongying language Mandarin Chinese
Taoyuan City hasOfficialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Taoyuan City Government officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Tongling language Mandarin Chinese
Chuzhou language Mandarin Chinese
Wu Peifu languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Pescadores language Mandarin Chinese
Johnny Chiang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Sun Chuanfang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Huaibei language Mandarin Chinese
Changchun language Mandarin Chinese
Zhuzhou language Mandarin Chinese
Hebei District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chizhou language Mandarin Chinese
Kavalan language shiftedTo Mandarin Chinese
Xianyang, China primaryLanguage Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Xianyang
Xuancheng languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Bozhou language Mandarin Chinese
Hengyang language Mandarin Chinese
Yueyang language Mandarin Chinese
Jiangdongmen area languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Yinchuan language Mandarin Chinese
Heihe language Mandarin Chinese
Haining language Mandarin Chinese
Huainan language Mandarin Chinese
Weifang language Mandarin Chinese
Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan) officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
subject surface form: Lienchiang County
Nangan Township officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Baotou language Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Airlines languageOfName Mandarin Chinese
Shaoyang hasLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Lingang languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Weihai languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Yongzhou language Mandarin Chinese
Penghu County Government officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Chinese Surinamese language Mandarin Chinese