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 Mandarin languageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Chao hasOrigin Chinese language
Huizhou Chinese subclassOf Chinese language
Huizhou Chinese languageFamily Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Shexian dialect languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Suzhounese languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic
Taizhou Wu languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Wuzhou Wu languageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Oujiang Wu subgroupOf Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic languages
Oujiang Wu hasLanguageBranch Chinese language
this entity surface form: Sinitic