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Summary
Chinese is a macrolanguage[1]. Chinese ranks in the top 8% of macrolanguage entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,095 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: People's Republic of China[3], Taiwan[4], Singapore[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6], language group[7], language family[8]
- Subclass of: Sino-Tibetan[9], Sinitic[10]
- Writing system: Chinese characters[11], traditional Chinese characters[12], simplified Chinese characters[13]
- Commons category: Chinese languages[14]
- Wikimedia language code: zh[15]
- Said to be the same as: Sinitic[16]
- Has part(s): Min Chinese[17], Yue Chinese[18], Hakka Chinese[19], Wu Chinese[20], Mandarin[21], Xiang Chinese[22], Jin[23], Huizhou Chinese[24], Pinghua[25], Ba-Shu Chinese[26], Shaozhou Tuhua[27]
- Coordinate location: 32, 108[28]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chinese language[29]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,299,877,520[30]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[31]
- Topic has template: Template:Chinese language[32], Q22772532[33]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/chinese[34]
- Has characteristic: varieties of Chinese[35]
- Native label: 汉语[36], 漢語[37], 中文[38]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C120588[39]
- Short name: китайский[40], кітайская[41]
- Different from: Sinitic[42], Huáyǔ[43]
- Female form of label: la langue chinoise[44]
- Studied by: sinology[45]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Chinese include UN Chinese Language Day[46], a world day[47], founded in 2010[48] and Ching-Te[49], a lunar crater[50].
Why It Matters
Chinese has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Chinese is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]
Chinese has been cited as an influence by English[53], a natural language[54], in American Samoa[55].
Entities named for Chinese include UN Chinese Language Day[46], a world day[47], founded in 2010[48] and Ching-Te[49], a lunar crater[50].
FAQs
Who did Chinese influence?
Chinese has been cited as an influence by English[53].