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| | Chinese language information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Chinese (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ; 中文, Zhōngwén; 华语/華語, Huáyǔ; or 华文, Huáwén) is a language (or language family) that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. |
 | | Vernacular Chinese, which is most closely based on the Mandarin group, is the standardized written language used by speakers of all Chinese spoken variants. |
 | | The situation in China is a complex and interesting case of diglossia: it is common for speakers of Chinese to be able to speak several varieties of the language, typically Standard Mandarin, the local dialect, and occasionally a regional lingua franca, such as Cantonese. |
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