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==Facts about Mandarin Chinese ==
==Facts about Mandarin Chinese ==
Mandarin is a group of Sinitic languages natively spoken across most of China.  
*Mandarin is a group of Sinitic languages[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinitic_languages] natively spoken across most of China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese.  
The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese.  
*Chinese is the language with the most native speakers(About 1.3 billion people,approximately 16% of the world's population).
Nevertheless, Mandarin is often placed first in lists of languages by the number of native speakers (with nearly a billion).
*Chinese is a tonal[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)] language.
 
*Chinese is a logographic[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram] language and has nearly eighty thousands of unique characters that came from hieroglyphs[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyph].
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
*Furthur readings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mandarin-language, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-languages, https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mand1415.


*'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>cmn</code>
*'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>cmn</code>
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