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Mandarin Chinese  

Definition

  • Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family), spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Since the 14th century, Mandarin has served as a lingua franca for government officials and the courts, which is why it is also known as Guānhuà, meaning officials' speech. All varieties of Mandarin Chinese are tonal and largely analytic. When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers (nearly a billion) than any other language.

Broader concept

Identifier

  • CMN

Notation

  • cmn

In other languages

  • паўночнакітайская мова

    Belarusian

  • мандарин

    Bulgarian

  • mandarí

    Catalan

  • mandarinski

    Croatian

  • mandarinski kineski
  • severočínské dialekty

    Czech

  • mandarin

    Danish

  • Mandarijn

    Dutch

  • mandariini keel

    Estonian

  • mandariinikiina

    Finnish

  • mandarin

    French

  • Nordchinesischen Dialekte

    German

  • μανδαρινικά κινεζικά

    Greek

  • mandarin

    Hungarian

  • mandarín

    Icelandic

  • Mhandairínis

    Irish

  • mandarino

    Italian

  • cinese mandarino
  • mandarīnu valoda

    Latvian

  • mandarinų kalbos

    Lithuanian

  • мандарински

    Macedonian

  • Mandarin Ċiniż

    Maltese

  • mandarin

    Norwegian

  • języki mandaryńskie

    Polish

  • mandarim

    Portuguese

  • mandarina

    Romanian

  • севернокитайский

    Russian

  • мандарински

    Serbian

  • mandarinski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • mandarin čínština

    Slovak

  • mandarin kitajščina

    Slovenian

  • mandarín

    Spanish

  • chino mandarín
  • mandarin

    Swedish

  • mandarin

    Turkish

  • мандаринська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CMN

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