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Mandarin
Also known as Mandarin Chinese, Guanhua
major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
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Mandarin is the major form of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. It matters because it is the most widely spoken variety of Chinese, serving as a common language for communication across these vast regions.
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- Guanhua swapped.svg
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- Commons category
- Mandarin Chinese language
- P10369
- Schulze method
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1074000000
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/mandarin
- short name
- паўночнакітайская
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Northern Chinese Simplified Chinese北方话 Traditional Chinese北方話 Literal meaningNorthern speech
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