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| Standard Chinese | |
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| Modern Standard Mandarin | |
| 普通话 / 普通話, Pǔtōnghuà 国语 / 國語, Guóyǔ 华语 / 華語, Huáyǔ | |
| Native to |  China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan Singapore |
Native speakers | (Has begun acquiring native speakers cited 1988, 2014)[1][2] L2 speakers: 7% of China (2014)[3][4] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early form | |
| Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Mainland Chinese Braille Taiwanese Braille Two-Cell Chinese Braille | |
| Wenfa Shouyu[5] | |
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Official language in |
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| Regulated by | National Language Regulating Committee (China)[6] National Languages Committee (Taiwan) Promote Mandarin Council (Singapore) Chinese Language Standardisation Council (Malaysia) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| ISO 639-6 | goyu (Guoyu) |
| Glottolog | None |
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| Simplified Chinese | 普通话 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Common speech | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 國語 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 国语 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | National language | ||||||||||||
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| Common name in Singapore and Southeast Asia | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 華語 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 华语 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Chinese language | ||||||||||||
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Standard Chinese, or Standard Mandarin, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan and is one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is based off the Mandarin dialect and should not be confused with other varieties of Chinese.
- ↑ Norman (1988), pp. 251.
- ↑ Liang (2014), p. 45.
- ↑ Luo, Chris (22 September 2014). "One-third of Chinese do not speak Putonghua, says Education Ministry". South China Morning Post.
- ↑ Only 7% of people in China speak proper Putonghua: PRC MOE, Language Log, 2014 Sept. 24
- ↑ 台灣手語簡介 (Taiwan) Archived 10 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine (2009)
- ↑ http://www.china-language.gov.cn/ Archived 2015-12-18 at the Wayback Machine (Chinese)