Learning Mandarin 🇨🇳

Learning Mandarin

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官話 - Guānhuà - The Mandarin language group
普通話 - Pǔtōnghuà (Pǔtōng = Common, Huà = Language), this is the dialect of Mandarin spoken in Beijing, as Beijing language was chosen to be the official language of China in the 1900's

北方话 - Běifānghuà - Northern language, typically Mandarin is natively spoken by certain areas of Northern China
中國人 - Zhōngguó rén - People with citizenship for the country China

There are over 56 Ethnicities in China

Hàn Sub-ethnicities in China

吴语 / 吳語- Wú Yǔ, This is the most spoken Hàn language group after Mandarin an example of Wú is the Shanghainese language
The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people,^{[citation needed]} (simplified Chinese: 吴越人; traditional Chinese: 吳越人; pinyin: Wúyuè rén; Shanghainese: [ɦuɦyɪʔ ɲɪɲ])
客家人 - Kèjiā rén - Hakka People
台山人 - Táishān rén- Toisanese People
新会人 - Xīnhuì rén - Sunwui People
广东人/ 廣東人 - Guǎngdōng rén - Cantonese People
福建儂; Hok-kiàn-lâng - Hokkien People

There are over 33 Ethnicities in Taiwan 🇹🇼

河洛儂 - Hok-ló-lâng - Hoklo People - The majority of Taiwan is this Hàn sub-ethnicity that came to Taiwan a few hundred years ago, their language is mutually intelligible with Minnan and Hokkien
客家人 - Kèjiā rén - Hakka People - They are not the majority. They came to Taiwan at similar times as the Hoklo people
There are people who came to Taiwan from China in the 1900's and 2000's
There are over 32 Indigenous Taiwanese ethnicities that have been in Taiwan for thousands of years. They are the minority in Taiwan.

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