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If you're referring to Mandarin Chinese (usually what spoken Chinese refers to), it is spoken in the whole country of China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia.
And if your referring to Cantonese, it is used around China just like mandarin. It is spoken in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Chinese is also spoken world-wide, as with many languages. Though Chinese isn't an official language in, for example, America, it can be heard spoken in America. It's also taught around the world, so the language spreads.
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What language is spoken in southern china?
In Southern China, they mostly speak Cantonese and Mandarin.
Do people who speak Mandarin understand people who speak Cantonese?
No. The two dialects, when spoken, are like two completely different languages. However, In writing, Mandarin and Cantonese are the same, and can be mutually understood.
What is life like for kids in China?
they speak Mandarin, Cantonese,etc. they play and eat and sleep
Can Mandarin Chinese Be Understood By Cantonese Chinese People?
More than 90% of Cantonese speakers can also speak Cantonese!
What does the word Cantonese mean in English?
Cantonese is a dialect that people speak in China.
Can Chinese people who speak Mandarin Chinese be understood by those who speak Cantonese Chinese?
No. Spoken language Is linguistically separate. They share characters however, and written Chinese is mutually intelligible by Both mandarin and Cantonese
What does mandarin mean in Chinese?
Most of Chinese speak mandarin, but people in the area of south like Taiwan and Guangdong speak Cantonese. It has different spelling, writing and pronunciation with Mandarin.
What country's use mandarin as their language?
China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia. Mandarin is spoken in several places but China is where it is the most common. They also speak Cantonese and several other dialects of Mandarin and other languages.
Can cantonese understand mandarin?
I am Cantonese and I usually don't understand what people are talking about when they speak in Mandarin. So the answer is no. You wouldn't be able to understand completely until you've learnt mandarin but you can sometimes make out what people are saying in mandarin. But if you do learn either of them, learning mandarin and already knowing Cantonese would make it easy to learn but it wouldn't be the case the other way round. This is probably because Cantonese has more tones and is harder?
What is Chinese?
china people who speak fluent mandarine or cantonese
What do peasants in China speak?
There are many regional variants of the Chinese language spoken in mainland China, the People's Republic of China, and they are not mutually intelligible, that is to say, one variant is not understood by those who speak another., so it would depend on which region in China you were talking about. Mandarin is the official language of China, with 836 million people who speak it. However, 77 million Chinese speak Wu, 71 million speak Cantonese, 60 million speak Min (including the people who live in Taiwan), 45 million speak Jin (a subgroup of Mandarin), 36 million speak Hakka (worldwide, not just in China, and 31 million speak Gan. Then there are 3.2 million who speak Hui (a subgroup of Wu) and 2 million people who speak Ping ( a subgroup of Cantonese).
Where do people speak mandarin?
It's spoken in China.
