Chinese Language

Chinese language can be considered a language or language family. About one-fifth of the world's population, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. According to news reports in March 2007, 86 percent of people in the People's Republic of China speak a variant of spoken Chinese. As a language family, the number of Chinese speakers is 1.136 billion. The same news report indicate 53 percent of the population, or 700 million speakers, can effectively communicate in Putonghua (commonly called "Mandarin"), outnumbering any other language in the world.
title Chinese language Read Number: 325
title Spoken Chinese Read Number: 267
title Standard Mandarin and diglossia Read Number: 278
title Language or language family? Read Number: 244
title Written Chinese Read Number: 233
title Chinese characters Read Number: 241
title History and evolution Read Number: 199
title Influences on other languages Read Number: 217
title Phonology Read Number: 248
title Phonetic transcriptions Read Number: 234
title Tones and Homophones Read Number: 241
title Grammar and Morphology Read Number: 249
title Vocabulary Read Number: 242
title New words Read Number: 241
title Modern borrowings and loanwords Read Number: 284
 
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