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Chinese Language

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Ethnicity Han (Chinese
Native speakers1. 2 billion (2004)
Dialects Jin
Wu
Gan
Xiang
Min
Yue
Huizhou
Language familySino-Tibetan languages
Sinitic languages
Regulated byNational Languages Committee
Music groups Japanese Language
Korean language
Geographic distributions Hong Kong
Macao
Taiwan
South East Asia
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About Chinese Language


Chinese is a group of languages that forms the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Chinese languages are spoken by the ethnic Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1. 2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

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