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.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Chinese language canonical	41
Sinitic languages	40
Sinitic	25
Chinese	2
Chinese languages	2

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 self-linksurface differs ⓘ 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 (110)

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

Standard Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

Standard Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

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 ⓘ

Sinosphere → coreInfluence → Chinese language ⓘ

International Bureau → languageOfWorkOrName → Chinese language ⓘ

subject surface form: International Bureau (Universal Postal Union)

this entity surface form: Chinese

Han Chinese → languageFamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Hakka → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Southwestern Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Xiang Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Xiang Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Chinese language → languageFamily → Chinese language self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Beijing dialect → subfamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Guoyu → languageFamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Jianghuai Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Wu Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

East Asian studies at Harvard University → includesLanguage → Chinese language ⓘ

Northern Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Ai → usedIn → Chinese language ⓘ

Wu dialects → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Min Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Jiaoliao Mandarin → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Loulan → hasLanguageEvidence → Chinese language ⓘ

Taishanese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

Taishanese → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Yue Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

Yue Chinese → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Classical Chinese → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Central Plains Mandarin → languageBranch → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Jilu Mandarin → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Chamic languages → hasInfluenceFrom → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Fumei → languageOfUse → Chinese language ⓘ

Yue → hasLanguageOfOrigin → Chinese language ⓘ

Hui people → usesLanguage → Chinese language ⓘ

Hui people → commonLanguageFamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Burmese diaspora → usesLanguage → Chinese language ⓘ

Ganxian Hakka → subgroupOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Taiwanese Hakka → subfamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Kejia → subfamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic

Xinan Guanhua → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

Pinghua → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Heyuan Hakka → subgroupOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Western Jin dynasty → languageFamily → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages

Jiaoling Hakka → subclassOf → Chinese language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sinitic languages