Chinese language

E57271

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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Chinese language canonical 41
Sinitic languages 40
Sinitic 25

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (110)

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

Southern Min partOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Teo-Swa languageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Chiuchow subgroupOf Chinese language
Chiuchow languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Teochew people languageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Palaungic contactWith Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Chen-Xu dialect group subgroupOf Chinese language
Chen-Xu dialect group subgroupOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Kaifu District hasLanguageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Yong-Quan dialect group partOf Chinese language
Medan Hokkien partOf Chinese language
Medan Hokkien hasSubfamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Minnan language languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Hoklo people hasLanguageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Zhangzhou dialect languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Philippine Hokkien subclassOf Chinese language
Philippine Hokkien hasLanguageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Utsat language influencedBy Chinese language
Utsat language hasGrammarInfluenceFrom Chinese language
Karluk languages influencedBy Chinese language
Mandarin Chinese subfamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Gan Chinese subfamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Jin Chinese subfamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Longchuan Hakka languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Meixian Hakka subfamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Chaoshan Min languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
hsn languageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
New Xiang partOf Chinese language
Old Xiang languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Hengzhou dialect group subgroupOf Chinese language
Xiamen dialect languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Hoklo language subclassOf Chinese language
Hlai languages influencedBy Chinese language
this entity surface form: Chinese languages
Lakkia language hasContactWith Chinese language
Lakkia language hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Chinese language
Dongxiang language influencedBy Chinese language
Daur language influencedBy Chinese language
Kangjia language hasLoanwordsFrom Chinese language
Sibe language hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Chinese language
Hangzhounese languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Jianghuai Guanhua subclassOf Chinese language
Jianghuai Guanhua languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Jianghuai Guanhua isOralFormOf Chinese language
Ningbonese partOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Chinese languages
Wenzhounese subclassOf Chinese language
Wenzhounese subclassOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group subclassOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Lan–Yin Mandarin subclassOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages