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

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