Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin (/??m??nd??r??n/; simplified Chinese: ??????; traditional Chinese: ??????; pinyin: Gu??nhu??; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of China. Because Mandarin originated in North China and most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as Northern Chinese (simplified Chinese: ?????????; traditional Chinese: ?????????; pinyin: B??if??nghu??; lit. 'northern speech'). Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the standard language (or are only partially intelligible). Ne

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