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Top 10 most spoken languages

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   Mandarin (over 845 million speakers)

 

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Mandarin is often called Chinese by non-speakers, but it is in fact only one of many Chinese languages, which include Cantonese and Xiang, in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Mandarin is the largest of the Chinese languages, and is the official language of Chinese mainland and Taiwan. It is also one of four official languages of Singapore (the others being English, Malay and Tamil). In addition, large scale immigration from both Chinese mainland and Taiwan have brought large populations of Mandarin speakers to the United States and Europe. Mandarin has two writing systems; Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Common Mandarin phrases include Nĭ hăo (Hello!), Wŏ dē míng zì jiào… (My name is…), and Huān yíng nĭ! (You're welcome!)



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