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IsiShayina
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IsiShayina singulimi weShayina.
Buka imininingwane eyisigcino Native to, Ethnicity ...
IsiShayina | |
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汉语/漢語 or 中文 Hànyǔ or Zhōngwén | |
![]() Hànyǔ (Chinese) written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) characters | |
Native to | IShayina, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, IMelika, IKhanada, I-Indonesia, and other places with significant overseas Chinese communities |
Ethnicity | Han Chinese |
Native speakers |
unknown (1.2 billion cited 1984–2001)[1] |
Language family |
Sino-Tibetan
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Standard forms |
Putonghua (Standard Mandarin)
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Dialects |
Mandarin
Jin
Wu (incl. Shanghainese)
Huizhou
Gan
Xiang
Min (incl. Amoy, Teochew, Hoochew)
Hakka
Yue (incl. Cantonese, Taishanese)
Ping
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Writing system |
Chinese characters, zhuyin fuhao, Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, braille. Ancient use of 'Phags-pa script. |
Official status | |
Official language in |
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Recognised minority language in |
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Regulated by |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | zh |
ISO 639-2 |
chi (B) zho (T) |
ISO 639-3 |
zho – inclusive code Individual codes: cdo – Min Dong cjy – Jinyu cmn – Mandarin cpx – Pu Xian czh – Huizhou czo – Min Zhong gan – Gan hak – Hakka hsn – Xiang mnp – Min Bei nan – Min Nan wuu – Wu yue – Yue och – Old Chinese ltc – Late Middle Chinese lzh – Classical Chinese |
Glottolog | sini1245 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA |
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