Chinese Language

Chinese language can be considered a language or language family. About one-fifth of the world's population, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. According to news reports in March 2007, 86 percent of people in the People's Republic of China speak a variant of spoken Chinese. As a language family, the number of Chinese speakers is 1.136 billion. The same news report indicate 53 percent of the population, or 700 million speakers, can effectively communicate in Putonghua (commonly called "Mandarin"), outnumbering any other language in the world.
title Chinese language Read Number: 326
title Spoken Chinese Read Number: 268
title Standard Mandarin and diglossia Read Number: 280
title Language or language family? Read Number: 246
title Written Chinese Read Number: 235
title Chinese characters Read Number: 242
title History and evolution Read Number: 200
title Influences on other languages Read Number: 218
title Phonology Read Number: 249
title Phonetic transcriptions Read Number: 235
title Tones and Homophones Read Number: 242
title Grammar and Morphology Read Number: 251
title Vocabulary Read Number: 243
title New words Read Number: 242
title Modern borrowings and loanwords Read Number: 285
 
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