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Standard Chinese
Sign in to saveAlso known as Putonghua, Guoyu, Huayu, Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin, Kuo-yü, Standard Northern Mandarin, Standard Beijing Mandarin
standard form of the Chinese language
Standard Chinese is the official form of the Chinese language used by the government and in education throughout China. It matters because it allows people from different regions of China, who may speak mutually unintelligible local varieties of Chinese, to communicate with each other.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Chinese
- Has part
- Malaysian Mandarin
- Country
- Singapore
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- characteristic of
- Beijing Mandarin
- topic's main category
- Category:Standard Chinese
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 193880000
- linguistic typology
- isolating language
- native label
- 华语
- indigenous to
- Yunnan
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Encyclopedic overview
Guoyu Traditional Chinese國語 Simplified Chinese国语 Literal meaningNational language
Huayu Traditional Chinese華語 Simplified Chinese华语 Literal meaningChinese language
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