Mandarin Chinese

Endonyms

普通话‎ (Putonghua)

Alternate Names

Mandarin Chinese, Chinese (Mandarin), Beifang Fangyan, Guanhua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Huayu, Mandarin, Northern Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese, Zhongguohua, Zhongwen

Identifiers
ISO code

cmn

Glottocode

mand1415

Metadata
Countries of origin

China

Writing systems

Bopomofo, Braille, Han (Simplified), Han (Traditional), Latin

Linguistic genealogy

Sino-Tibetan

EGIDS Status

1 - National

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