IsiShayina

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IsiShayina
汉语／漢語 or 中文 Hànyǔ or Zhōngwén
Hànyǔ (Chinese) written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) characters
Native to	IShayina, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, IMelika, IKhanada, I-Indonesia, and other places with significant overseas Chinese communities
Ethnicity	Han Chinese
Native speakers	unknown (1.2 billion cited 1984–2001)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic IsiShayina
Standard forms	Putonghua (Standard Mandarin)
Dialects	Mandarin Jin Wu (incl. Shanghainese) Huizhou Gan Xiang Min (incl. Amoy, Teochew, Hoochew) Hakka Yue (incl. Cantonese, Taishanese) Ping
Writing system	Chinese characters, zhuyin fuhao, Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, braille. Ancient use of 'Phags-pa script.
Official status
Official language in	China Template:Country data Hong Kong Template:Country data Macau Taiwan Singapore Wa State, Burma Template:Country data United Nations Template:Country data ASEAN
Recognised minority language in	Canada Malaysia United States
Regulated by	National Commission on Language and Script Work National Languages Committee Promote Mandarin Council Chinese Language Standardisation Council
Language codes
ISO 639-1	zh
ISO 639-2	chi (B) zho (T)
ISO 639-3	zho – inclusive code Individual codes: cdo – Min Dong cjy – Jinyu cmn – Mandarin cpx – Pu Xian czh – Huizhou czo – Min Zhong gan – Gan hak – Hakka hsn – Xiang mnp – Min Bei nan – Min Nan wuu – Wu yue – Yue och – Old Chinese ltc – Late Middle Chinese lzh – Classical Chinese
Glottolog	sini1245
Linguasphere	79-AAA
Map of the Sinophone world Legend:      Countries identified Chinese as a primary, administrative, or native language      Countries with more than 5,000,000 Chinese speakers      Countries with more than 1,000,000 Chinese speakers      Countries with more than 500,000 Chinese speakers      Countries with more than 100,000 Chinese speakers      Major Chinese-speaking settlements