Mandarin speakers
Beijing dialect speakers
People who speak Mandarin Chinese, the most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.
The term typically refers to native speakers from mainland China, Taiwan, and Chinese diaspora communities, though it includes anyone fluent in the language: The conference provided interpreters for Mandarin speakers.
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- language schoolsInstitutions teaching foreign tongues
- TaiwanDisputed East Asian island-state
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- diglossiaCoexisting language varieties, distinct roles
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