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  • Chinese Language Explained: Varieties, Names, and Phrases

    Victoria Hayes · ✓ Reviewed by Grace Clarke

    Ask ten people what “Chinese” means and you’ll hear ten different answers, because it is a family of related Sinitic varieties — some mutually unintelligible — with more than 1.3 billion speakers, according to Wikipedia’s linguistic history of China. The names Zhongwen, Hanyu, Putonghua, Mandarin, and Cantonese all get called “Chinese,” but once you see…

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