MandarinMandarin or Guanhua (北方話 or 官話) is a family of related
languages spoken across
most of northern and southwestern Mainland China. The Mandarin
dialect spoken
in Beijing (Peking) functions as the official spoken language
of the People's
Republic of China (Standard Chinese or Putonghua), the official
language of
the Republic of China (Taiwan) (Guoyu), and one of the official
languages of
Singapore.
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