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This article is on all of the Northern and Southwestern Chinese dialects. For the standardized official spoken Chinese language (Putonghua/Guoyu), see Standard Mandarin .


Language Information

  name Mandarin
  nativename 官話 ''Guānhuà''
  familycolor Sino-Tibetan
  states <!-- please note this article is about the dialect group spoken in northern and south-western china, not putonghua/guoyu --> People's Republic Of China
  region Most of northern and southwestern China
  speakers over 1 billion
  rank 1 (native speakers)