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Mandarin

Gunhu (Mandarin) written inChinese characters

Spoken in

People's Republic of China, Taiwan,Singapore, Malaysia,United States (chieflyNew York City)

Region

Most of northern and southwestern China, Taiwan and Singapore (and other overseas Chinese communities)

Total speakers

Native: 845 million[1] Overall: 1,365,053,177[2]

Language family Sino-Tibetan

Sinitic Chinese Mandarin


Dialects Northeastern Beijing Ji-Lu Jiao-Liao Lower Yangtze Central Plains Lan-Yin Southwestern (Jin, disputed)

Picture according to Wikipedia.

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in Chinese history, that is why is very influential and we think is important because it is surprising that is the most language spoken in the world despite there arent other countries that has mandarin language as first language but the question comes up why can Mandarin be the most spoken language? This is because of the big population of china. That is why we think Mandarin Is important because this language could be someday like English nowadays, where we had to learn at least basic Mandarin Chinese.

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