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Chinese is a group of language varieties that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.2 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language
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This article is about the group of Sinitic language varieties spoken in China. For other languages spoken in China, see Languages of China.
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Unless otherwise specified, Chinese in this article is written in simplified Chinese/traditional Chinese; pinyin order. If the simplified and traditional characters are the same, they are written only once.
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ[b] or especially for written Chinese: 中文; Zhōngwén)[c] is a group of language varieties that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.2 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
Chinese汉语/漢語, Hànyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén
Hànyǔ written in traditional (top) and simplified characters (middle); Zhōngwén (bottom)
Native toPeople's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan)EthnicityHan Chinese
Native speakers
1.2 billion (2004)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Chinese
Early forms
Old Chinese
Middle Chinese
Standard forms
Standard Mandarin
Standard Cantonese
Dialects
Mandarin
Jin
Wu
Gan
Xiang
Min
Hakka
Yue
Ping
Huizhou
Writing system
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions:
Zhuyin
Pinyin (Latin)
Xiao'erjing (Arabic)
Dungan (Cyrillic)
Chinese Braille[disambiguation needed]
ʼPhags-pa script (Historical)Official status
Official language in
Mandarin:
Mainland China
Singapore
Taiwan
Cantonese (de facto):[a]
Hong Kong
Macau
Regulated byNational Commission on Language and Script Work (Mainland China)[2]
National Languages Committee (Taiwan)
Civil Service Bureau (Hong Kong)
Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (Macau)
Chinese Language Standardisation Council (Malaysia)
Promote Mandarin Council (Singapore)Language codesISO 639-1zhISO 639-2chi (B)
zho (T)ISO 639-3zho – inclusive code
Individual codes:
cdo – Min Dong
cjy – Jinyu
cmn – Mandarin
cpx – Pu Xian
czh – Huizhou
czo – Min Zhong
gan – Gan
hak – Hakka
hsn – Xiang
mnp – Min Bei
nan – Min Nan
wuu – Wu
yue – Yue
csp – Southern Pinghua
cnp – Northern Pinghua
och – Old Chinese
ltc – Late Middle Chinese
lzh – Classical ChineseGlottologsini1245Linguasphere79-AAA
Map of the Sinophone world.
Countries where Chinese is a primary, administrative or native language
Countries with more than 5,000,000 Chinese speakers
Countries with more than 1,000,000 Chinese speakers