Mandarin Chinese

E181408

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken variety of Chinese and a major world language used across mainland China, Taiwan, and many overseas Chinese communities.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Mandarin Chinese canonical 682
Mandarin 21
Putonghua 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sinitic language
macrolanguage
variety of Chinese
hasCaseInflection no
hasGrammaticalGender no
hasPluralInflection limited
historicalOrigin Northern Chinese dialects
influenced various East and Southeast Asian languages
influencedBy Classical Chinese
ISO639-1Code zh
ISO639-3Code cmn
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
lexifierFor Chinese Pidgin English
mostWidelySpokenVarietyOf Chinese
numberOfSpeakers over 1 billion total speakers
over 900 million native speakers
numberOfTones four lexical tones plus a neutral tone
officialLanguageOf People's Republic of China
linked to: China

Republic of China (Taiwan)
linked to: Republic of China

Singapore
United Nations
primaryDialectRegion Northern China
linked to: North China

Southwestern China
linked to: Southwest China
primaryPhonologicalSystem tonal language
primaryScriptInHongKongAndMacau Traditional Chinese characters
linked to: Chinese characters
primaryScriptInMainlandChina Simplified Chinese characters
primaryScriptInTaiwan Traditional Chinese characters
primaryWordOrder SVO
regulatingBody Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
National Language Commission of China
romanizationSystem Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)
linked to: Zhuyin
spokenIn Indonesia
Mainland China
linked to: China

Malaysia
Singapore
Taiwan
overseas Chinese communities
standardVariety Guoyu
Huayu
Putonghua
linked to: Mandarin Chinese

Standard Mandarin
linked to: Standard Chinese
subfamily Sinitic
linked to: Chinese language
UNLanguageStatus one of six official UN languages
usesClassifiers yes
writingSystem Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (713)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Han Chinese primaryLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Hakka notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Mandarin Chinese
Henan Province language Mandarin Chinese
Southwestern Mandarin subclassOf Mandarin Chinese
Shiyan language Mandarin Chinese
Huangshi languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Yichang language Mandarin Chinese
Xiangyang languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Xiangyang majorLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Jingmen language Mandarin Chinese
Xiaogan language Mandarin Chinese
Jiang Zemin languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Lang Lang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Hu Jintao signatureLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Xi Jinping languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Teochew notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Mandarin Chinese
Jensen Huang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Guangdong Province language Mandarin Chinese
Yangtze River Delta language Mandarin Chinese
Jingzhou languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Xianning language Mandarin Chinese
Puxi languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Shaoshan languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Xiang Chinese influencedBy Mandarin Chinese
Suizhou language Mandarin Chinese
Hongkou District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Joseph C. Tsai languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Jing’an District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Yangpu District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Eric Yuan languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Kinmen officialLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Li Qiang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Li Zongren languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Putuo District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Binondo languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Chinatown, Manhattan languageSpoken Mandarin
linked to: Mandarin Chinese
Mark Obama Ndesandjo languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Jiading District languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Zhang Xueliang languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese
Nauruan hasLoanwordsFrom Chinese
linked to: Mandarin Chinese
Tianmen language Mandarin Chinese
Chinese Malaysians language Mandarin Chinese
Penang commonLanguage Mandarin Chinese
Xiangtan language Mandarin Chinese
Tianhe languageUsed Mandarin Chinese
Indian Malaysians language Mandarin
linked to: Mandarin Chinese
Taierzhuang language Mandarin Chinese
Chinese language hasPart Mandarin Chinese
Beijing dialect subgroup Mandarin Chinese
Beijing dialect formsBasisOf Putonghua
linked to: Mandarin Chinese