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- Sino-Tibetan
- Mandarin Chinese
ISO 639-3 · cmncmn
Sino-Tibetan family
Mandarin Chinese
普通话
Mandarin Chinese is a language of the Sino-Tibetan branch, spoken in Brunei, China, Taiwan and Indonesia and 3 more countries. Wikidata counts 918 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
cmn- Glottocode
mand1415- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 39.90, 116.41
- Wikipedia
- 135 language editions
918 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
7countries
1scripts
1levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Mandarin Chinese · 普通话 |
|---|---|
| Also called | Mandarin Chinese, Guanhua |
| L1 speakers | 918,000,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 1,074,000,000 |
| Written in | Chinese characters |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Sino-Tibetan to Mandarin Chinese
The branches above Mandarin Chinese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Brunei
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