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How many people speak Chinese as there first language?

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Chinese isn't the name of a language - Mandarin is the most widely common language in the Sino-Tibetan group. There are approximately 885 million first language speakers of Mandarin, but even Mandarin has dialects, so there exists a Standard Mandarin. The rest of China, and even some Mandarin natives, speaks different Chinese languages.

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