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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In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 6,824 inbound references to Mandarin, and connects out to Teochew, Sama–Bajaw and Malay trade and creole languages.

It sits within the topics Chinese languages in Singapore, ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue and Language articles citing Ethnologue 28.

Vinony links it to 114 Wikipedia language editions.

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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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Encyclopedic overview

Northern Chinese Simplified Chinese北方话 Traditional Chinese北方話 Literal meaningNorthern speech

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