Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) (汉语/漢語, pinyin: Hànyǔ; 华语/華語, Huáyǔ; or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language family consisting of languages mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one...

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Sinitic language family,
Chinese language family

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Language Family:

Sino-Tibetan languages

Main Country:

China

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Region:

East Asia

ISO 639-3 Code:

zho

ISO 639-2 Code:

chi

ISO 639-1 Code:

zh

sub-families:

Min

languages:

Cantonese

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