The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chinese:
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') 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 17% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
What type of thing is Chinese? edit
Chinese can be described as all of the following:
- Chinese language – as a holistic linguistic entity with wide variation
- the Sinitic languages – a large language family with many mutually unintelligible varieties
- Chinese characters
Varieties of Chinese edit
History of the Chinese language edit
Phonology edit
Morphology edit
Grammar edit
General Chinese concepts edit
Literary Chinese culture edit
Institutions and standards edit
Linguists of Chinese edit
See also edit
References edit
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