Chinese
Spoken language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or around 16% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first... Wikipedia
Dialects: Standard Chinese, Hokkien, Taishanese, and more
Language families: Sino-Tibetan languages and Sinitic languages
Family: Sino-Tibetan family
Early forms: Proto-Sino-Tibetan: Old Chinese > Eastern Han Chinese > Middle Chinese;
Native speakers: 1.35 billion (2017–2022)
Native to: Mainland China; Taiwan; Singapore; throughout the Sinophone world
Standard forms: Standard Chinese; Standard Cantonese