ಚೀನಿ ಭಾಷೆ: ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆಗಳ ನಡುವಿನ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ

|speakers=ಸು. ೧.೩ [[ಬಿಲಿಯನ್]]

|rank='''ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸೇರಿ''': ೧

[[ಮ್ಯಾಂಡರಿನ್ ಭಾಷೆ|ಮ್ಯಾಂಡರಿನ್]]: ೧ <br />

[[ವೂ ಭಾಷೆ|ವೂ]]: ೧೨ <br />

[[ಹಕ್ಕ ಭಾಷೆ|ಹಕ್ಕ]]: ೩೩ <br />

[[ಗಾನ್ ಭಾಷೆ|ಗಾನ್]]: ೩೮

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam1: [[ಚೀನಿ-ಟಿಬೆಟನ್ ಭಾಷೆಗಳು|ಚೀನಿ-ಟಿಬೆಟನ್]]

|script=[[ಚೀನಿ ಲಿಪಿ]]

|nation={{flagicon|the People's Republic of China}} [[ಚೀನಿ ಜನರ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ]] <br /> {{flagicon|the Republic of China}} [[ಚೀನಿ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ]] <br /> {{flagicon|Singapore}} [[ಸಿಂಗಾಪುರ]] <br /> {{flagicon|the United Nations}} [[ಸಂಯುಕ್ತ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ]]

|agency=

|iso1=zh

|iso2b=chi / zho

}}

* Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson. ''Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar'' (1989), p 2. “The Chinese language family is genetically classified as an independent branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.”

* Jerry Norman. ''Chinese'' (1988), p.1. “The modern Chinese dialects are really more like a family of language.</ref> About one-sixth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. The [[identification of the varieties of Chinese]] as "languages" or "dialects" is controversial.<ref name=Mair>{{cite journal|url=http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp029_chinese_dialect.pdf|journal=Sino-Platonic Papers|last=Mair|first=Victor H.|authorlink=Victor H. Mair|title=What Is a Chinese "Dialect/Topolect"? Reflections on Some Key Sino-English Linguistic Terms|date=1991}}</ref> As a language family Chinese has an estimated nearly 1.2&nbsp;billion speakers; [[Mandarin Chinese]] alone has around 851&nbsp;million native speakers, outnumbering any other language in the world.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cmn Ethnologue report for language code:cmn]</ref><ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=eng Ethnologue report for language code:eng]</ref>

* [[Hakka (linguistics)|Hakka]] 客家 or 客, (c. 34 million)，

* [[Gan (linguistics)|Gan]] 贛/赣, (c. 31 million)

 

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