These include Cantonese and Hokkien, which enjoy strong regional support. The government launched another campaign to push for linguistic unity in China.Ĭhina is home to thousands of dialects and several minority languages. Of the 70% of the population who can speak Mandarin, many do not do it well enough. Chinese is the language of writing and reading (characters) and Mandarin is the language of speaking and listening.Īccording to China’s Education Ministry, only about 400 million people, or 30% of the population, cannot speak the country’s national language. There is a difference between Mandarin and Chinese. Cantonese is spoken in Macau, Hong Kong and Guangdong province, including Guangzhou. Mandarin is the official state language spoken in China, mainly in the mainland, Taiwan and Singapore. When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it “Mandarin”, from its Chinese name Guānhuà (官话/官話) or “language of the officials”. Mandarin Chinese, also known as Huayu, comes from Portuguese mandarim, and means “minister or counsellor” and was originally meant for officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties.īack then, these officials communicated using a Koiné language based on various northern varieties. So learning and working with Mandarin language makes all the sense. In 2nd place we have Spanish with 480 Million native speakers and in 3rd place is English with 379 Million native speakers.įor any translator or interpreters one thing is sure: you need to evolve and learn as many languages you can so you have a job. With more than 1.3 Billion native speakers, it is the 1st language in the world.
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Google Patents US20050010392A1 - Traditional Chinese / simplified Chinese character translator US20050010392A1 - Traditional Chinese / simplified Chinese character translator