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Historical events that affected Mandarin

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Historical events that affected Mandarin

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As we all know Mandarin is part of the Chinese language family group, but how did Mandarin become China’s official language?

Mandarin arose as the ruling language from the higher class of people during the event of the Ming Dynasty from 1368 to 1644.

Because Mandarin was established from the Beijing dialect, it became the official language of the court during the Qing Dynasty from 1644 to 1912.

As many people began to come to the Chinese court, the dialect and language of the people began to expand little by little, and thus it was that until 1909 Mandarin was established as the national language of China.

Finally, when the Qing Dynasty was demolished in 1912, Mandarin was kept as the official language, although the name was modified (pǔ tōng huà) in 1955, in Taiwan still uses the original name (guó yǔ).

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Until the early years of the 20th-century china didn't have a single national language, Mandarin Chinese is the official language of mainland China and has been since 1982. The new newly established republic of china convened a commission on the unification of pronunciation in order to develop a phonetic system and national language of china in February 1913. After years of long research in 1918, the commission adopted the Zhuyin alphabet as the official alphabet. The commission published a Dictionary of national pronunciation in 1920 that adopted a modification of Beijing's phonology. In 1932 the republic of china officially adopted the commission product known as mandarin as the national language of China, also in 1932 was published the first definitive dictionary of the mandarin language.

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Mandarin Chinese is the official language of China and has been since 1982. It’s the native language of two-thirds of the population where this is the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Because the history of this language has never been interrupted, it has a record since the second millennium BC. Furthermore, Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect and other northern Chinese dialects. Although it is divided into four subgroups: Northern Mandarin, Northwestern Mandarin, Southwestern Mandarin, and Southern Mandarin.

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Mandarin may be considered “the official state language” of China, but there are more languages in the country like, Cantonese which was more popular than Mandarin, but now Mandarins popularity has been growing.

Mandarin is the most popular Chinese language.

Mandarin is more dominated in Southeast Asian countries.

The Mndarin language is one of the most popular languages around the world containing 1.11 million speakers.

Mandarin has four tones and an additional neutral tone for them to differentiate words.

Mandarin started developing 1000 years ago

Mandarin has no alphabet incorporated in their language.

Mandarin uses 50,000 characters in their language compared to 26 letters of the alphabet.

It’s said that if you learn the chinese language you’ll be able to use both lobes of the brain.

In the chinese language there are no conjugation words nor tenses, so it makes it a little easier to learn.

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Mandarin is “the official state language” of China and it is said that it's one of the most spoken languages in the country.

It is said by Chinese citizens that everyone in China, but there are better places where they speak it fluently because some cities tend to use loanwords and forget the Mandarin language.

Communities from China tend to move into different places around the world, therefore the mandarin language expands around the world. You can find small or large communities in America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, but, even if you hear people speaking Mandarin it may not sound the same if you were in China because the language is more dominated there than in other places in which communities learn it as their second language.

This is a list of some countries or cities apart from China where you can find people speaking mandarin:

Taiwan

Singapore

New York City (USA)

San Francisco (USA)

Los Angeles (USA)

San José (USA)

Chicago (USA)

Honolulu (USA)

Vancouver (Canada)

Toronto (Canada)

London (Europe, UK)

Manchester (Europe, UK)

Liverpool (Europe, UK)

Johannesburg (Africa)

Nigeria (Africa)

Mauritius (Africa)

Madagascar (Africa)