Chinese language

E57271
Sinitic language language family macrolanguage

The Chinese language is a family of related Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and others, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China and across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.

Aliases (3)

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sinitic language →
language family →
macrolanguage →
hasISOStandard ISO 639-1: zh →
ISO 639 →
surface form: "ISO 639-2: chi"

ISO 639-2: zho →
ISO 639-3: zho →
hasMorphologicalFeature analytic →
isolating →
hasPart Cantonese →
Gan Chinese →
Hakka →
surface form: "Hakka Chinese"

Huizhou Chinese →
Jin Chinese →
Mandarin Chinese →
Min Chinese →
Pinghua →
Wu Chinese →
Xiang Chinese →
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal →
hasStandardVariety Standard Chinese →
surface form: "Standard Mandarin"
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order →
historicalAncestor Middle Chinese →
Old Chinese →
languageFamily Chinese language →
surface form: "Sinitic"
numberOfSpeakers >1 billion →
officialLanguageOf China →
surface form: "People's Republic of China"

Republic of China →
surface form: "Republic of China (Taiwan)"

Singapore →
United Nations →
primaryScriptType logographic →
region China →
Chinese diaspora communities worldwide →
Hong Kong, China →
surface form: "Hong Kong"

Macau →
Malaysia →
Singapore →
Taiwan, Province of China →
surface form: "Taiwan"
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan languages →
usedIn Chinese calligraphy →
Chinese education →
Chinese literature →
Chinese media →
usesRomanizationSystem Hanyu Pinyin →
Wade–Giles →
Yale romanization →
writingSystem Chinese characters →
Simplified Chinese characters →
Traditional Chinese characters →

Referenced by (22)

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

Sinosphere → coreInfluence → Chinese language →
Indonesian → hasLoanwordsFrom → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Chinese"
Sino-Tibetan languages → hasSubfamily → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Sino-Tibetan languages → includesLanguage → Chinese language →
Hakka → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Jianghuai Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Northern Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Southwestern Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic"
Standard Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Wu Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic"
Xiang Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic"
Chinese language → languageFamily → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic"
Guoyu → languageFamily → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Han Chinese → languageFamily → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
International Bureau → languageOfWorkOrName → Chinese language →
subject surface form: "International Bureau (Universal Postal Union)"
this entity surface form: "Chinese"
Standard Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language →
Wu dialects → subclassOf → Chinese language →
Wu dialects → subclassOf → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Xiang Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic"
Beijing dialect → subfamily → Chinese language →
this entity surface form: "Sinitic languages"
Ai → usedIn → Chinese language →