Mandarin Chinese is known as 普通话 (Pǔtōnghuà), the “common speech,” and it has only been the official language of China since the 1930s, when the country established it as the standard dialect and ...

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as ... region when the Mongolian language was replaced by standard Mandarin as the language of instruction. China’s ruling ...

After English, comes Mandarin Chinese, which is used by approximately ... the World Other languages that appear in the top ten are Standard Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, and Urdu, all ...