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# Mandarin language

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Mandarin is the language of North China and Taiwan.

Mandarin is a northern Chinese dialect, and one of five major dialects in China.

In China, it is known as Putonghua 普通话/普通話 (Common language) and Hanyu 汉语/漢語 (Language of the Han nationality)

Overseas, it is known as Hanyu 华语/華語 (Chinese language). In Taiwan, it is known as Guoyu 国语/國語 (National language)

It is spoken by over 800 million people around the world, more than any other language.

It is one of the six official languages at the United Nations.

## [edit] Writing

Mandarin is written with characters called hànzì (漢字 or 汉字). Each hànzì is a word, which means that many thousands of characters exist.

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