Draft:Outline of the Chinese language
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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 around 16% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
What type of thing is Chinese?
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
History of the Chinese language
Phonology
Morphology
Grammar
General Chinese concepts
Literary Chinese culture
Institutions and standards
Linguists of Chinese
See also
References
External links
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