"Chinese" is not just one language; it is really a family of many dialects, some of which are so different from one another that they could possibly be considered different languages. Speakers of one dialect often can't understand speakers of other dialects. However, the Chinese languages been written in a uniform way (Chinese characters) for thousands of years.
Some of the dialects in the Chinese language family include Mandarin (Putonghua) spoken mostly in the North, Cantonese spoken mostly in Guangdong, Shanghainese (Wu), Hakka, Minbei, and Minnan. There are also numerous ethnic groups in China who speak their own languages, separate from Chinese, such as Zhuang, Manchu, Miao and Uyghur. Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China, and most young people in the PRC can speak Mandarin in addition to their native dialect/language.
Nationally people speak mandarin Chinese, or putonghua, with most local dialects varying slightly from the standard Chinese, but Cantonese, a dialect popular in Guangdong province and among many overseas Chinese, differs largely from the mandarin in pronunciation (not so in writing).
The official languages of China are Standard Chinese (Mainland), Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Portuguese, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Zhuang. Apart from these there are many different indigenous languages, dialects and minority languages spoken in the country, bringing the total number of living languages in China to around 292 different languages.
There are many forms of the Chinese language spoken in China but the two main dialects are Mandarin and Cantonese. Mandarin is the most widely spoken language while Cantonese is spoken mostly in the South and in Hong Kong
Answer
The National Language is Han Yu meaning the language of the Han people, or pu tong hua. Either way they both mean Mandarin. Mandarin is supposed to be the national language but there are more than 200 languages in China. Cantonese the most known next to Mandarin. But they're united by the writing system which is the same even if the spoken word is different.
There is no one official language. It is either Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese
Chinese
Answer:
There is no real one answer as Chinese has many dialects (e.g. Mandarin, Wu, Xiang, Hakla, Yue, Min Nan, etc.) which are mutually unintelligible to speakers of other dialects. It also depends where the speaker is from - Mainland Chinese officially speak Mandarin, Hong Kong uses Cantonese and Taiwan uses Hokkien.
The language is Chinese
Almost everyone in China speaks Chinese, but not everyone can understand each other. People from different parts of China speak Chinese in different dialects. For instance, someone from one part of China might not be able to understand someone from the other side of China because they speak in different dialects.
Mandarin Chinese is the official language of China, though there are many dialects of this language (if you learn the dialect from Chengdu, people in Hong Kong may not be able to understand you).
China has seven different dialects of Chinese spoken in various parts of the country, along with some regional languages such as Mongolian and Tibetan. The official language is Standard Mandarin, and most educated Chinese speak English as a second language.
Mandarin is the language most spoken in China. The Beijing Mandarin dialect is the lingua franca of China.
Approx. 850 million of China's population of approx. 1.3 billion, speak the language.
The most spoken dialects are Mandarin (spoken by over 70% of the population), Wu (Shanghainese), Yue (Cantonese), Min, Xiang, Gan, and Hakka.
The top 2 languages in China are Mandarin and Cantonese.
Mandarin is the official language of the country.
Mandarin Chinese
ANS 2 -Mandarin is only 1 of the many languages of China
There's only one language --Chinese. However there are many dialects(appro. 65 not 100% sure) but they can be roughly classified into one of the seven large groups, i.e., Putonghua (Mandarin), Gan, Kejia (Hakka), Min, Wu, Xiang and Yue (Cantonese).ach language group contains a large number of dialects. Many Chinese nowadays know how to speak English as well (esp. in Hong Kong)
CHINESE!
Mandarin and Cantonese are the two most spoken languages. English is the most spoken foreign language.
Mandarine and Cantonese are the official languages of China.
about 100 alnguages but the main one is mandarin.
it is 292
yes theres chinese of course and mandarin,some chinese speak english and well thats all i know
Kantonese or/and Mandarin... i think manderin is the most widely used one though
In China, the main language is Mandarin Chinese, in the south parts of the country, such as Guangdong and Hong Kong, people mostly speak Cantonese. Each part of the country have their own accent and some are so different that it would be very hard to understand. In the provinces on the west of China, there is Xin jiang, xi zhang, nei meng gu, they have their own language. There are alot of other languages in China, since there are 56 ethnic groups. Shanghai people have their own language and people from fujian province have their language.
mainly Mandarin, Cantonese spoken in some regions
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua,) Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan, Xiang, Gan and Hakka dialects.
Mandarin is the official language of China.
Standard Mandarin is the official language of China. The main languages in China are Sino-Tibetan, Taiâ??Kadai, and Altaic, just but to mention a few.
Pretty sure it chinese
Mandarin and Cantonese
The most common is Mandarin.
China only has one national language, Mandarin Chinese. However, there are many other dialects spoken around the country.
However Mandarin Chinese may be written as either Simplified or Traditional Mandarin. Cantonese is another popular, widely spoken dialect, particularly in Guangdong Province, as well some other overseas communities such as Hong Kong and Macau.
English
spanish
chines
Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese
Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese.
Mandarin Chinese is the official language of China. Some other languages are Mongolian, Tibetan, Uughur and Zhuang.
Chinaese. The most of them can speaken a simple English.
The two largest languages are Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese is the more widely spoken within China. Mandarin, however, is more widely spoken by the upper class. Also spoken is Tibetan.
Typically Mandarin and Cantonese are recognized as the two native languages spoken in China. However, Chinese has many, many regional dialects. It is very difficult to count the number of dialects because the difference is more of a spectrum of languages than discrete countable languages.
chinese
Most chinese people speak Mandarin, the official Chinese language. However, in various areas in China, people speak dialects and variations of Chinese. Some of them are very different sounding to the Mandarin Chinese.
They mainly speak Mandrin but they also speak Cantonese, several variations on Min, and Hunanese
China speaks the only kind of Chinese that exists. Here is a list of all the dialects that are spoken in China:
Mandarin
Jin
Huizhou
Wu
Hunanese
Jiangxinese
Hakka
Yue (including Cantonese-Taishanese)
Pinghua
Shaojiang
Northern Min
Eastern Min
Central Min
Pu Xian
Southern Min (including Amoy, Taiwanese)
Teochew (including Swatow, Chaozhou, Jieyang, parts of Shanwei/Meizhou)
The 1 official and national language of the People's Republic of China is Mandarin, spoken by more than 70% of the population.
After Mandarin, Cantonese is the next most widely spoken dialect/language.
Including Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, there are a total of 296 languages* spoken in mainland China. This number also includes some languages that have no monolingual speakers:
Chinese Sign Language is the deaf sign language of the People's Republic of China. It is unrelated to Taiwanese Sign Language or any other sign language in the world.
*Note: the languages of China are both dialects and separate languages. The spoken forms are so different from each other, they are considered different languages. However the written form is the same for almost all of them, making them more like regional dialects on paper.
There are 296 languages spoken in China, but Mandarin is the most widely spoken.
Yes because that is the native language spoken there.
As of 2011, the Ethologue catalogue lists 296 languages.
It is called Mandarin
Mandarin is the most popular.
Mandarin
The languages spoken in China during World War 2 are the same languages spoken there today: Mandarin, Cantonese, and about 290 other dialects.
Mandarin and Uyghur are the two languages spoken in Xinjiang to about 50/50.
The most widely spoken language in Kashgar China is Uyghur, followed by Mandarin.
The most widely spoken languages in Guangzhou (formerly called "Canton") are Cantonese and Mandarin.
Many languages are spoken there, including Uyghur, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tatar and the Kazakh, Mongolian, Russian, and Mandarin
The names of the two Chinas are the Peoples Republic of China and Republic of China. The Peoples Republic of China encompasses mainland China as well as Macau and Hong Kong. The Republic of China refers to Taiwan.
Evenki is not "Indian" in any sense of that word. It is a language spoken by native ethnic peoples in Russia, Mongolia and China.
Peoples republic of china
peoples' republic of china
People's Republic of China
The languages spoken in China during World War 2 are the same languages spoken there today: Mandarin, Cantonese, and about 290 other dialects.
The Peoples' Republic of China is a vast country containing many large and small cities.
The United States is a major export partner of the Peoples Republic of China.
Mandarin and Uyghur are the two languages spoken in Xinjiang to about 50/50.
The People's Republic Of China was establilshed in 1949.
The peoples republic of china is not a democracy.
Mao Zedong was the leader of the people's republic of China.