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Mandarin Chinese

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Regions northern
southwestern China
Chinese
Native speakers910 million (2015); 200 million L2 (no date)
Standard forms Chinese
Early forms Chinese
Middle Chinese
Language familySino-Tibetan languages
Sinitic languages
Writing systems Chinese characters
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About Mandarin Chinese


Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.

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... human rights organisations and the UN say that China has rounded up and detained, to refrain from more than a million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, which are stored in large internment, where they are forced on you, the Islam, to speak only in Mandarin Chinese and to learn obedience to the Communist government...

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