1 image

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin ( MAN-d??r-in; simplified Chinese: ??????; traditional Chinese: ??????; pinyin: Gu??nhu??; lit. 'officials' speech') is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Its spread is generally attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible...

e: 2000000000000030563

wikidata.org 0 views · 2024-12-26 20:48:18

Strings (13)

URIs (1)