Mandarin Chinese
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Regions | northern |
|---|---|
| southwestern China | |
| Chinese | |
| Native speakers | 910 million (2015); 200 million L2 (no date) |
| Standard forms | Chinese |
| Early forms | Chinese |
| Middle Chinese | |
| Language family | Sino-Tibetan languages |
| Sinitic languages | |
| Writing systems | Chinese characters |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 591277 |
About Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.
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... " And written in eight languages - English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Classical Hebrew, Swahili, Hindi and Spanish - were cryptic instructions for rebuilding society post Doomsday: " Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature; Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity; Unite humanity with a living new language; Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason; Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts; Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court; Avoid petty laws and useless officials; Balance personal rights with social duties; Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite; Be not a cancer on the Earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature...
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... Rights groups say those in camps are made to learn Mandarin Chinese, swear their loyalty to Chinese president Xi Jinping, and even renounce their faith in some instances...
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... Your series, Putong animals, re-after imagines of animals, what are they called in Mandarin Chinese or Mandarin is the official language of China...
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... human rights organisations and the UN say that China has rounded up and detained, to refrain from more than a million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, which are stored in large internment, where they are forced on you, the Islam, to speak only in Mandarin Chinese and to learn obedience to the Communist government...
US blacklists China organizations in Xinjiang 'Uighur abuse
... human rights organisations and the UN say that China has rounded up and detained, to refrain from more than a million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, which are stored in large internment, where they are forced on you, the Islam, to speak only in Mandarin Chinese and to learn obedience to the Communist government...