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2. List of countries and territories where Chinese is an ...

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   Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education designated Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, and Matsu dialect as its provisional "National Languages" in 2019. [14] [15] In Wa State, Mandarin Chinese is de facto the official language, even though the government tries to promote the use of Wa. This situation arose because Wa ...

3. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .

4. List of official languages of international organizations

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   This is a list of official languages of international organizations. Different organizations sometimes refer to their principal languages of administration and communication as "working languages" , while others refer to these as being "official" .

5. Chinese as a foreign language - Wikipedia

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   Mandarin also became the official language of Taiwan when the Kuomintang took over control from Japan after World War II. In 2010, 750,000 people (670,000 from overseas) took the Chinese Proficiency Test. [1] For comparison, in 2005, 117,660 non-native speakers took the test, an increase of 26.52% from 2004. [2]

6. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.

7. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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   Ili, with Chinese (Mandarin) Barkol, with Chinese (Mandarin) Mori, with Chinese (Mandarin) part of Mongolia. Mori, with Mongolian; Khakas: Khakassia (state language; with Russian) [85] Khanty: Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug (aboriginal language; with Mansi and Nenets) [86] Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (aboriginal language; with Nenets and ...

8. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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   Mandarin’s four tones are enough to flummox English speakers. For example, depending on the inflection, "ma" can mean "mother," "numb," "horse" or "yell at." With nine tones, Cantonese is even ...

9. Languages in censuses - Wikipedia

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   Malaysia contains speakers of 137 living languages, [89] 41 of which are found in Peninsula Malaysia. [90] The government provides schooling at the primary level in each of the three major languages, Malay, Chinese (Mandarin), and Tamil. Within these three there are a number of dialectal differences.