Mandarin topic
Also known as
- Beifang Fangyan,
- Qotong,
- Northern Chinese,
- Guoyu,
- Hytad,
- Guanhua,
- Hui,
- Kuoyu,
- Huayu,
- Putonghua,
- more
Mandarin ( or ), is a category of related Chinese dialect spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin language has more speakers than any other language. The "standard" in Standard Mandarin refers to the standard Beijing dialect of the Mandarin language.
In English, Mandarin can refer to either of two distinct concepts:
In everyday use, Mandarin refers usually to just Standard Mandarin ...
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