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“Well, there really isn't much grammar in the Chinese Language, at least not as concerned as all the other languages. However, one thing peculiar to the Chinese Language is that …”

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Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; simplified Chinese: 华语; traditional Chinese: 華語; pinyin: Huáyǔ; simplified Chinese: 中国话; traditional Chinese: 中國話; pinyin: Zhōngguóhuà; orChinese: 中文; pinyin: Zhōngwén) is a language family consisting of languages mutually unintelligible to varying degrees.^[3] Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. Theidentification of the varieties of Chinese as "dialects" instead of "languages" is considered inappropriate by some linguists and Sinologists.^[4]

Spoken Chinese is distinguished by its high level of internal diversity, although all spoken varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. There are between seven and thirteen main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin (about 850 million), followed by Wu (90 million), Cantonese (Yue) (70 million) and Min (70 ...

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