Standard Chinese

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lingua franca official language standardized language variety of Mandarin Chinese

Standard Chinese is the official standardized form of the Chinese language, based primarily on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin and used as the national lingua franca of China.

Aliases (7)

Mandarin Chinese ×18
Standard Mandarin ×13
Modern Standard Mandarin ×2
Putonghua ×1
Putonghua (Standard Mandarin of mainland China) ×1
Singapore standard Mandarin ×1
Standard written Chinese ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	lingua franca → official language → standardized language → variety of Mandarin Chinese →
alsoKnownAs	Guoyu → Huayu → Modern Standard Mandarin → Putonghua → Standard Mandarin →
basedOn	Mandarin Chinese →
basedOnDialect	Beijing dialect →
function	medium of instruction in Singapore → medium of instruction in Taiwan → medium of instruction in mainland China → national lingua franca of China →
historicalDevelopmentPeriod	20th century →
ISO639-1Code	zh →
ISO639-3Code	cmn →
languageBranch	Sinitic languages →
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan languages →
numberOfTonesInCitationSystem	4 lexical tones plus neutral tone →
officialLanguageOf	People's Republic of China → Republic of China → Singapore →
phonologicalSystem	Mandarin phonology →
primaryGrammaticalBasis	vernacular Chinese literature of the early 20th century →
primaryLexicalBasis	Northern Mandarin dialects →
primaryPhonologicalBasis	Beijing pronunciation →
primaryRegionsSpoken	Singapore → Taiwan → mainland China → overseas Chinese communities →
recognizedLanguageIn	United Nations →
regulatedBy	Ministry of Education of the PRC → Ministry of Education of the ROC → National Language Commission of the PRC →
scriptDirection	left-to-right →
subclassOf	Chinese language →
typology	analytic language → tone language →
UNLanguageStatus	official UN language →
usedAs	language of government in Singapore → language of government in Taiwan → language of government in mainland China →
usesWritingSystem	Chinese characters → Simplified Chinese characters → Traditional Chinese characters →
writingConventions	Simplified Chinese in Singapore → Simplified Chinese in mainland China → Traditional Chinese in Taiwan →
writingNormStandardizedBy	PRC national standards → ROC national standards →

Referenced by (80)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
All-China Women's Federation → Anhui → Beijing ("Standard Mandarin") → Changping District → China → China ("Mandarin Chinese") → Chongqing → Fujian → Guizhou Province → Hainan → Hebei → Huangshi → Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region → Jiangxi Province → Kashgar → Liuzhou ("Standard Mandarin") → Matsu Islands ("Mandarin Chinese") → Republic of China ("Standard Mandarin") → Shaanxi Province → Shandong → Sichuan Province → Singapore ("Mandarin Chinese") → Suizhou → Supreme People's Court of China → Supreme People's Procuratorate of China → Tianjin → Tibet Autonomous Region → Xinjiang → Yanqing District →	officialLanguage
Asian New Zealander ("Mandarin Chinese") → Central China ("Mandarin Chinese") → Liuzhou ("Mandarin Chinese") → Mao Zedong family → Tan Dun ("Mandarin Chinese") → Xi'an ("Mandarin Chinese") →	language
Chaoyang District → Dongcheng District, Beijing ("Standard Mandarin") → Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party → Qinzheng Hall → Xiantao → Xicheng District →	languageUsed
Standard Chinese ("Putonghua") → Standard Chinese ("Modern Standard Mandarin") → Standard Chinese ("Standard Mandarin") →	alsoKnownAs
Guoyu → Guoyu ("Modern Standard Mandarin") → Huayu ("Standard Mandarin") →	hasAlternativeName
Huanggang → Qinghai → Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China →	hasOfficialLanguage
Chiang Wei-kuo ("Mandarin Chinese") → Soong Mei-ling ("Mandarin Chinese") → Sun Yat-sen ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageSpoken
Beijing dialect → Northern Mandarin →	formsBasisOf
Hubei Provincial People's Government → State Council of China →	languageOfWork
Huayu ("Putonghua (Standard Mandarin of mainland China)") →	basedOn
Beijing dialect ("Standard Mandarin") →	closelyRelatedTo
Cantonese ("Standard Mandarin") →	hasDistinctGrammarFrom
Cantonese ("Standard Mandarin") →	hasDistinctVocabularyFrom
East Asia ("Mandarin Chinese") →	hasMajorLanguage
Chinese language ("Standard Mandarin") →	hasStandardVariety
Sino-Tibetan languages ("Mandarin Chinese") →	includesLanguage
Tang County, Hebei, China ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageMajority
Mandarin phonology →	languageOf
Wuhan →	languageOfficial
National Day military parades →	languageOfOfficialCommands
National People's Congress →	languageOfProceedings
Ang Lee ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageOfWorkOrName
North China ("Mandarin Chinese") →	languageRegion
Republic of China ("Mandarin Chinese") →	nationalLanguage
Xi Jinping →	nativeLanguage
Wu dialects ("Standard Mandarin") →	notMutuallyIntelligibleWith
People's Liberation Army →	primaryLanguage
National Language Commission of the PRC ("Standard Mandarin") →	regulates
Zhan ("Singapore standard Mandarin") →	romanizationStandard
Han Chinese ("Standard Mandarin") →	standardSpokenVariety
Han Chinese ("Standard written Chinese") →	standardWrittenLanguage
MFL ("Mandarin Chinese") →	typicalLanguageIncluded