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Preferred term

zhoChinese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Chinese language (/ Hànyǔ; / Huáyǔ; Zhōngwén) is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speaks some variety of Chinese as their native language. Internal divisions of Chinese are usually perceived by their native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and Sinologists.

Entry terms

  • Chinese language
  • Chinese languages

ISO 639-1 code

  • zh

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • chi

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • zho

ISO 639-3 code

  • zho

Notation

  • zho

In other languages

  • chinois

    French

  • Langues chinoises
  • Chinesische Sprachen

    German

  • Lingua cinese

    Italian

  • Língua chinesa

    Portuguese

  • Idioma chino

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/zho

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