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The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; pinyin: hànyǔ, huáyǔ, or zhongwén) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Although most Chinese view the many varieties of spoken Chinese as a single languageAs with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition; however, most would agree that language is a system of communication or reasoning using representation along with metaphor and some manner of logical grammar. Many langua, regional variations in spoken language are comparable to those of Romance languages. However, all of the spoken varieties of Chinese share a common formal written language, Vernacular ChineseVernacular Chinese ( []; in pinyin: baihu literal meaning: "Plain Language") is a style of written Chinese which is based on Standard Mandarin. Vernacular Chinese stands in contrast with Classical Chinese ( wenyan , which is based on Old Chinese, the lang, written using Chinese characterTraditional Chinese and other languages. Simplified Chinese Chinese characters or Han characters (/) are used in the written forms of the Chinese language, and to varying degrees in the Japanese and Korean languages (though the latter only in South Korea)s.

About one-fifth of the world speaks some forms of Chinese as its native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China in mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations. Spoken in the form of Standard Cantonese, Chinese is one of the two official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macao (together with Portuguese).

The terms and concepts used by Chinese to think about language are different from those used in the West, partly because of the unifying effects of the Chinese characters used in writing, and partly because of differences in the political and social development of China in comparison with Europe. Whereas after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe fragmented into small nation-states, the identities of which were often defined by language, China was able to preserve cultural and political unity through the same period, and maintained a common written standard throughout its entire history, despite the fact that its actual diversity in spoken language has always been comparable to Europe. As a result, Chinese (under Westerners) make a sharp distinction between Written language (wen) and Spoken language (yu). The concept of a distinct and unified combination of both written and spoken forms of language is much less strong in Chinese than in the West. One uniform script and written standard continues to be used for all the spoken varieties of Chinese.

Spoken Chinese is a tonal language related to Tibetan and Burmese, but genetically unrelated to other neighbouring languages, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and Japanese. However, these languages were strongly influenced by Chinese in the course of history, linguistically and also extralinguistically. Korean and Japanese both have writing systems employing Chinese characters, which are called Hanja and Kanji, respectively.

In North Korea, Hanja has been completely discontinued and Hangul is the sole way to express their language, while in South Korea, Hanja is used as a form of bold face. Japanese has thought of abondoning Chinese characters since 20th Century, but Chinese characters, deeply rooted in Japanese culture, still can't be abolished. Vietnamese also generally stopped the use of Chinese characters but the Chinese loanwords can still be easily seen in modern vietnamese phonetic written scripts.

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