Where is standard mandarin spoken in china?
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at
5:41 am
i mean it is the official language of china but there are so many dialects i don’t know where mandarin is spoken.
Also is standard mandarin the same one that is spoken in taiwan?
Tagged with: dialects • mandarin • official language of china • taiwan
Filed under: Mandarin Written and Spoken
Mandarin Chinese is the official language of Mainland China, Taiwan Province, and it is one of the official languages of Singapore. In English, it is often just called "Mandarin Chinese" or "Chinese." In China, it is called “普通话 (Pǔtōnghuà) Putonghua,” while in Taiwan Province it is referred to as “国語 (Guóyǔ) Guoyu-the national language.” It has been the main language of education in Mainland China and Taiwan Province, (excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) since the 1950’s. Standard Mandarin is close to, but not quite identical with the Mandarin dialect of the Beijing City. Note that while the spoken Mandarin in the above places is more or less the same, but the written characters are different. Taiwan Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Macau Special Administrative Region all still use Traditional Chinese characters，whereas Mainland China and Singapore use a simplified derivative.
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mandarin is the language of northern china (plus of course some families or groups who moved from there, e.g., some of the people who came to taiwan in 1949). it has dialects itself, the official language is very close to the dialect of beijing.
it is spoken in norther and southwestern parts of china
there is no such country as Mandaria where all Mandarians must speak Mandarin…
Chinese is spoken by Chinese people as the official language of China…
Since it is taught in all schools, Mandarin is spoken in all places in China, and also all in Taiwan — just like English is spoken in all United Kingdom, even though in Ireland, most people speaks Irish as the first option — in the same way, Sichuan people would come out with Sichuan dialect first, which sounds like Mandarin with accent ..