The Chinese language is derived from the language spoken by the Han Chinese. the Chinese language is considered the most difficult to learn language in the world, and is divided into between 7 and 13 regional groups, the most common of which is Mandarin.
Standard Chinese is based on the beijing dialect of Mandarin, referred to as Guan1Hua4 and is the official language of the peoples republic of china. and the republic of china, as well as one of the official languages in singapore and the united nations.
most linguists believe that there was an origonal language, termed proto-sino-tibetan, from which all Chinese originated.
old chinese was common during the zhou dynasty(1122-256 BCE)
both Korean and Japanese have writing systems using chinese characters
fifty percent or Korean vocabulary and a similar percentage of japanese and vietnamese vocabulary is based on words from Chinese.
language - Wen2
official chinese - guan1hua4
characters - Shu1qi4
word - ci2
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