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Chinese
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language group of the Sinitic languages
Chinese is a group of related languages spoken by over a billion people, primarily in China and Chinese diaspora communities around the world. It matters because it's the most widely spoken language group globally and represents a major vehicle for one of the world's oldest and most influential civilizations.
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- Chineselanguage.svg
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- Commons category
- Chinese languages
- native label
- 中文
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1299877520
- Wikimedia language code
- zh
- P10369
- Friday
- Stack Exchange site URL
- chinese.stackexchange.com
- P11012
- Extrema
- entry in abbreviations table
- кит.
- short name
- кітайская
- P13311
- Vilaller
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/chinese
- female form of label
- la langue chinoise
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C120588
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Alternative Chinese name Chinese中文 Literal meaningChinese writing
Second alternative Chinese name Simplified Chinese汉文 Traditional Chinese漢文 Literal meaningHan writing
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