Mandarin speakers refer to Mandarin as 普通话 (pu tong hua).
Mandarin is the official dialect in mainland China.
Mandarin
Mandarin or Cantonese
They speak the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
lio-shi (Mandarin dialect).
Mandarin is not a language. It is a dialect of the Chinese language.
Chinese is a broader term that refers to the entire language family, which includes various dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and others. Mandarin, specifically, is the most widely spoken dialect of Chinese and is the official language of China and Taiwan.
Chinese is not one language but many. Those many Chinese languages are usually called dialects, but while related, they are so different that they are better called languages. However, Mandarin is the most commonly spoken of them and the official standard language is based on it. If you study Chinese, you study Mandarin.
The people of Guilin primarily speak a dialect of Mandarin Chinese known as Guilinese or Guilinhua. This dialect is part of the southwestern Mandarin subgroup and has its own unique characteristics and accent.
Mandarin is the name of a dialect of Chinese.
Mandarin is the most widely used Chinese dialect.
The official language in China is Mandarin, and the most common dialect is the Beijing dialect.