Chinese Language is one of the world’s oldest language. Almost all of the people of China and Taiwan speak Chinese and about three-fourths of the people of Singapore speak it. Chinese is written the same way throughout China. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. This family includes Burmese, Thai and Tibetan.
Written Chinese has no alphabet. Instead, it consists of 50 000 characters. The Chinese writing system is logographic; meaning that each character stands for a word or part of a word. A person who knows about 4 000 of the most frequently used characters can read a Chinese newspaper or a modern novel. Scholars who read ancient Chinese characters must learn many more characters.
Spoken Chinese is Northern Chinese or Mandarin. It is the official language of China, where it is called Putonghua which means common or standard language. The language is taught in all the nation’s schools. Northern Chinese is also the official inTaiwan where it is called Guoyu.
In Malaysia, Phillippines and Singapore, Standard Chinese is known as Huayu [simplified Chinese: 华语; traditional Chinese: 華語; pinyin: Huáyǔ; literally "Chinese (in a cultural sense) language"]. In other parts of the world, the three names are used interchangeably to varying degrees, Putonghua being the most common. Chinese - de facto, Standard Mandarin - is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
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