Draft:Outline of the Chinese language
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chinese:
Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.
What type of thing is Chinese?[edit]
Chinese can be described as all of the following:
- Chinese language – as a holistic linguistic entity with wide variation
- the Sinitic languages – a large language family with many mutually unintelligible varieties
- Chinese characters
Varieties of Chinese[edit]
History of the Chinese language[edit]
Phonology[edit]
Morphology[edit]
Grammar[edit]
General Chinese concepts[edit]
Literary Chinese culture[edit]
Institutions and standards[edit]
Linguists of Chinese[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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