The Chinese language is the most widely spoken in the world.<\/p>\n
The Chinese language is unique and fascinating. Unlike many other languages, Chinese has one written and several spoken forms. The main form spoken and used officially in China is Mandarin. And there is no Chinese alphabet, but the Yin Pin to know the pronunciation of the characters.<\/p>\n
Knowing Mandarin, you are able to communicate with almost anyone in China, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.<\/p>\n
Chinese is the oldest written language in the world, dating back about 4000 years.<\/p>\n
The traces of writing in Chinese were found in the time of the Shang dynasty (1600-1066 BC). But we owe the use of the Chinese language today to the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) by the Qin emperor, who unified China in language, culture, and the nation itself.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Chinese language uses so-called "Characters", which are known as \u6c49\u5b57 (hanzi). The first characters were drawn to look like objects (pictogram). Chinese characters later evolved to represent ideas rather than syllables. Chinese characters have meaning regardless of the sounds that can be made to describe them.<\/p>\n
The Chinese language is in fact a family of languages. In the Chinese language, in addition to the official language that is Mandarin, there are many variants of spoken Chinese. These different Chinese languages are sometimes known as dialects.<\/p>\n
It is considered that in China, there are more than 200 dialects. These dialects come from the 56 ethnic minorities, which China is home to _________. Speakers of the Chinese language usually use one of the dialects from these 7 language groups: Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Xiang (Hunense), Min, Gan, Wu and Kejia or Hakka.<\/p>\n
All spoken versions of Chinese are part of the same family, which are part of the Chinese-Tibetan language group. Therefore they are closely related. These Chinese languages share a system of tones, which are used to differentiate homonyms.<\/p>\n
Mandarin Chinese has five tones, and other Chinese languages may have more.\u7ca4 Yu\u00e8 (Cantonese) for example has 9 tones. All Chinese languages use the same written language: Chinese Characters.<\/p>\n
However, despite being closely related, these different languages are mutually incomprehensible. This is because all Chinese citizens are taught one official and common language: Mandarin.<\/p>\n
Mandarin is taught in schools across the country. The media, officials, and the government use Mandarin as their primary language. When it is written in Chinese, a phonetic system is used, called pinyin, which corresponds to the pronunciation in Mandarin. In addition to China, Mandarin is the official language in several other countries in Asia. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.<\/p>\n
More than 70% of the Chinese population speak Mandarin as their first language. The remaining 30% often learn their local dialect and Mandarin so they can communicate with anyone. Learn Mandarin, you will be fine anywhere.<\/p>\n
In English, Mandarin is a term that you will hear the most to refer to the official Chinese language. There are many other names used to describe the Chinese language: \u666e\u901a\u8bdd \uff08Pu Tong Hua), \u6c49\u8bed (Han yu), \u4e2d\u6587 \uff08Zhong Wen\uff09 \uff0c Standard Chinese, and more.<\/p>\n
Mandarin is one of the two names given by Westerners to refer to the official Chinese language. In schools, when you study Chinese, in most cases what you are learning is Mandarin.<\/p>\n
\u666e\u901a\u8bdd literally means the \u201ccommon language\u201d. The term Chinese uses the \u666e\u901a\u8bdd to refer to its common and official language.\u666e\u901a\u8bdd is taught in school. The media, the government, and officials all speak \u666e\u901a\u8bdd.<\/p>\n
\u6c49\u8bed refers to the \u201clanguage of the Han tribe\u201d. The Han dynasty contributed a lot to the construction of the national language. This term is used in China to refer to the Chinese language in general. It is a bit more formal to say \u6c49\u8bed than \u4e2d\u6587 Zh\u014dng w\u00e9n which means the same thing. Chinese living in the United States and abroad may sometimes say \u6c49\u8bed to refer to the Chinese national language.<\/p>\n
\u56fd\u8bed Gu\u00f3y\u01d4 is another term that refers to the Chinese language.\u56fd\u8bed literally means the \u201clanguage of the country\u201d. You might hear this term mostly in Taiwan and sometimes Hong Kong to refer to Mandarin, in the same way in China they use \u666e\u901a\u8bdd to refer to Mandarin.<\/p>\n
Overseas Chinese communities mostly use \u534e\u8bed to refer to their national and official Chinese language.\u534e\u8bed literally means \u201cLanguage of China\u201d. It is possible to hear Chinese communities in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines use this term.\u534e\u8bed is used to differentiate Chinese from other languages spoken in these countries.<\/p>\n
You can find many Chinese speakers: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam (Saigon) and Malaysia (especially in Kuala Lumpur)<\/p>\n
With the Chinese colonization, the Chinese language spread to South Asia. The Chinese wanted a strategic control of the ports in order to control trade with Europe and thus conquer the cities in the area that have large and interesting ports. Today, Mandarin Chinese is the official language in China and Taiwan, and one of the official languages in Macau, and Singapore.<\/p>\n
You can find many Chinese speakers, who speak some form of Chinese (either Mandarin or a Chinese dialect): in the United States, particularly in California and New York.<\/p>\n
You can find many Chinese and Asian communities in North America. Ancient colonization is the main reason behind many factors why many Chinese live in North America. Immigration is another factor, especially during the Gold Rush, which made it possible for you today to listen to and practice spoken Chinese in other places outside of China. Many ethnic groups such as the Miao and many Cantonese people immigrated to Canada and the United States so you can also practice spoken Chinese with them.<\/p>\n
It is the one spoken mostly in China. Initially, people mainly spoke Mandarin, as well as its regional variations such as Mandarin in and around Beijing. As well as in northern China. Mandarin is today the official language of China and a key to most of Asia.<\/p>\n
One of the most used dialects in China is \u4e94 \u534e W\u01d4 hu\u00e1, or Wu. This group of Wu dialects includes the Shanghaines, which is mainly heard in Shanghai. About 8.5% of Chinese speak Wu, mostly in Zhejiang province, near Shanghai and in neighboring coastal areas.<\/p>\n
Near Fujian province and the coastal area in the South, but also in Taiwan and Singapore, you can hear many dialects corresponding to the \u95fd\u8bed m\u01d0n y\u01d4 group of dialects. The best known groups of this type of dialect are probably Fuzhounese and Hokkien. You may have heard of Hainanese and Taiwanese. About 4% of the Chinese speak at least one of the Min dialects.<\/p>\n
Chinese Hakka <\/strong><\/p>\n People who speak dialects of the \u5ba2\u5bb6 \u8bdd k\u00e8ji\u0101hu\u00e0 Hakka group are found scattered throughout southern China, from Sichuan to Taiwan, particularly in parts of the Guandong and Fujian provinces. About 4% of the population can speak a dialect belonging to the Hakka group.<\/p>\n You probably haven't heard of \u8d63 \u8bed G\u00e0n y\u01d4, Gan dialect.<\/p>\n Of all the major groups of dialects that make up the Chinese language, this dialect is the one that people usually know the least. Only about 2.5% of the population speaks it. The Gan dialect can be heard mainly in Jiangxi province and in some parts of Hubei, Fujian and Hunan provinces.<\/p>\n Xiang<\/strong><\/p>\n Also known as Hunanense, it is possible to find groups of \u6e58 \u8bed xi\u0101ngy\u01d4 dialects in Hunan and in some parts of Sichuan province. About 5% of Chinese living in China speak some form of Xiang.<\/p>\n If your goal is to have the ability to communicate with as many Chinese-speaking people, without a doubt, you must learn Mandarin. Mandarin is the gateway to all of China, Taiwan, Singapore, and many countries in Asia.<\/p>\n El idioma Chino \u00bfQu\u00e9 es el idioma Chino? Introducci\u00f3n al idioma chino El idioma chino es el m\u00e1s ampliamente hablado en el mundo. El idioma chino es \u00fanico y fascinante. Diferente a muchos otros idiomas, el Chino cuenta con una forma escrita y varias habladas. La principal forma hablada y usada oficialmente en China es […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprender-mandarin","category-blog","category-curso-de-mandarin-en-costa-rica","tag-que-es-el-mandarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9370,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamandarin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chinese Gan<\/h4>\n
And what Chinese language should I learn?<\/h3>\n
Source: Ninchanese.<\/h5>\n
Translation: Andr\u00e9s Rojas Chinchilla \/ Kung Tse Oriental Confucius Institute<\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"