The Mandarin

Chinese, also known as the Chinese, Chinese, other name is Chinese, Mandarin, Chinese language, Chinese, Tang Wen, Chinese language, there are words, words, commonly known as the Chinese Tang dynasty. Chinese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language analysis language, tone. As the Chinese writing system, Chinese characters is a logogram, ideographic and also a certain amount of phonetic features. Written Chinese and spoken study mandarin contains two parts. Written in ancient Chinese referred to the writings in classical style, modern written Chinese language generally refers to modern standard chinese. Many modern Chinese dialects, some dialects of spoken and written language differences between larger, relatively uniform.

Chinese is a language, the main distribution of countries and regions are: Greater China ( mainland China, Hongkong SAR, Macao SAR, Taiwan area of the Republic of Singapore ( Singapore ) for the Chinese nation," another Chinese to build the country." ". Ninety percent Chinese ), Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the United States western states and Hawaii and other countries and regions. According to the UNESCO statistics would say that Chinese people have about 1600000000, occupy world population to use language first ( occupies world population using language 1/5 ), extensive use of ranks second in the world ( English extensive degree first, there are about 50000000 foreigners learn Chinese as a second language). Chinese is the United Nations recognized as official six one of the working languages.

A branch of the Chinese / Mandarin is nearly hundreds of years to form the basis of northern mandarin. It's speech in Beijing as the standard pronunciation, but is not identical to the Beijing dialect, is to abandon the Beijing speech of some dialectal forms. Chinese language in mainland China is called Putonghua, in Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan, known as the Mandarin, in Singapore, Malaysia known as the Mandarin, but in a Mandarin has some differences. Academic place refers to the Han language collectively, sometimes refers to Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, in addition, also call, Hu Pu refers to mandarin. There is no doubt, Chinese is the world's most widely used language in the world, there are about 1 / 5 of people use Chinese as daily communication language. But the ancient Chinese also had to its neighboring countries language had important influence. For example, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese has retained a large number of ancient Chinese Loanwords and the ancient Chinese system of writing text.