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  2. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese, known in China as Putonghua, based on the Mandarin dialect of Beijing, [5] is the official national spoken language for the mainland and serves as a lingua franca within the Mandarin-speaking regions (and, to a lesser extent, across the other regions of mainland China).

  3. Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Mandarin (/ ˈmændərɪn / ⓘ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China and Taiwan. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of ...

  4. Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese is an official language of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin and was first officially adopted in the 1930s.

  5. Standard Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese is the official language of Taiwan. Standard Chinese started being widely spoken in Taiwan following the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, with the relocation of the Kuomintang (KMT) to the island along with an influx of refugees from the mainland.

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

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    Today, Chinese has an official language status in three countries and two territories. In China, it is the sole official language as Standard Chinese; in Taiwan, it is the de facto official language; while in Singapore (as Mandarin) it is one of the four official languages. In Hong Kong and Macau it is co-official as Cantonese, alongside ...

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

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    Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.

  8. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    China (mainland only) 302 3 305 4.29 1,319,419,348 4,472,608 27,700 ... This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with ...

  9. Varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, and is one of the official languages of Singapore. [16] It has become a pluricentric language, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary between the three forms. [17] [18]