how many official languages are there in China?
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Mandarin is the only official state language, but there are dozens of local dialects and separate languages spoken by ethnic minorities.
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In all  there are 6,912 known living languages:\n\nsome of them are as follows:\n\n\nAari\nAariya\nAasáx\nAbadi\nAbaga\nAbai Sungai\nAbanyom\nAbar\nAbau\nAbaza\nAbé\nAbidji\nAbinomn\nAbipon\nAbishira\nAbkhaz\nAbnaki, Eastern\nAbnaki, Western\nAbom\nAbon\nAbron\nAbu\nAbua\nAbui\nAbun\nAbung\nAbure\nAbureni\nAceh\nAchagua\nAchang\nAché\nAcheron\nAchi', Cubulco\nAchi', Rabinal\nAcholi\nAchterhoeks\nAchuar-Shiwiar\nAchumawi\nAcipa, Eastern\nAcipa, Western\nAcroá\nAdabe\nAdamorobe Sign Language\nAdang\nAdangbe\nAdap\nAdele\nAdhola\nAdi\nAdi, Galo\nAdioukrou\nAdonara\nAduge\nAdyghe\nAdynyamathanha\nAdzera\nAekyom\nAer\nAfade\nAfar\nAfitti\nAfrikaans\nAfro-Seminole Creole\nAgarabi\nAgariya\nAgatu\nAgavotaguerra\nAghem\nAghu\nAghu Tharnggalu\nAghul\nAgi\nAgob\nAgoi\nAgta, Alabat Island\nAgta, Camarines Norte\nAgta, Casiguran Dumagat\nAgta, Central Cagayan\nAgta, Dicamay\nAgta, Dupaninan\nAgta, Isarog\nAgta, Mt. Iraya\nAgta, Mt. Iriga\nAgta, Remontado\nAgta, Umiray Dumaget\nAgta, Villa Viciosa\nAguano\nAguaruna\nAguna\nAgutaynen\nAgwagwune\nÀhàn\nAhanta\nAhe\nAheu\nAhirani\nAhom\nAhtena\nAi-Cham\nAigon\nAiklep\nAiku\nAimaq\nAimele\nAimol\nAinbai\nAinu\nAinu\nAiome\nAiroran\nAiton\nAizi, Aproumu\nAizi, Mobumrin\nAizi, Tiagbamrin\nAja\nAja\nAjawa\nAjië\nAjyíninka Apurucayali\nAk\nAka\nAka\nAka-Bea\nAka-Bo\nAka-Cari\nAka-Jeru\nAka-Kede\nAka-Kol\nAka-Kora\nAkan\nAkar-Bale\nAkaselem\nAkateko\nAkawaio\nAke\nAkebu\nAkei\nAkha\nAkhvakh\nAklanon\nAkolet\nAkoose\nAkoye\nAkpa\nAkpes\nAkposo\nAkrukay\nAkuku\nAkum\nAkurio\nAkwa\nAlaba\nAlabama\nAlago\nAlagwa\nAlak\nAlamblak\nAlangan\nAlatil\nAlawa\nAlbanian, Arbëreshë\nAlbanian, Arvanitika\nAlbanian, Gheg\nAlbanian, Tosk\nAlege\nAlekano\nAlemannisch\nAleut\nAleut, Mednyj\nAlgerian Sign Language\nAlgonquin\nAli\n Alladian\nAllar\nAlngith\nAlor\nAlsea\nAlta, Northern\nAlta, Southern\nAltai, Northern\nAltai, Southern\nAlumu-Tesu\nAlune\nAlur\nAlutor\nAlviri-Vidari\nAlyawarr\nAma\nAma\nAmahai\nAmahuaca\nAmaimon\nAmal\nAmami-Oshima, Northern\nAmami-Oshima, Southern\nAmanab\nAmanayé\nAmapá Creole\nAmara\nAmarag\nAmarakaeri\nAmarasi\nAmba\nAmba\nAmbae, East\nAmbae, West\nAmbai\nAmbakich\nAmbelau\nAmbele\nAmblong\nAmbo\nAmbrym, North\nAmbrym, Southeast\nAmbulas\nAmdang\nAmele\nAmerax\nAmerican Sign Language\nAmharic\nAmi\nAmikoana\nAmis\nAmis, Nataoran\nAmo\nAmpanang\nAmri\nAmto\nAmundava\nAmuzgo, Guerrero\nAmuzgo, Ipalapa\nAmuzgo, San Pedro Amuzgos\nAnaang\nAnakalangu\nAnal\nAnam\nAnambé\nAnamgura\nAnasi\nÁncá\nAndaman Creole Hindi\nAndaqui\nAndarum\nAndegerebinha\nAndh\nAndi\nAndio\nAndoa\nAndoque\nAndra-Hus\nAneityum\nAnem\nAneme Wake\nAnfillo\nAngaatiha\nAngal\nAngal Enen\nAngal Heneng\nAngika\nAngloromani\nAngolar\nAngor\nAngoram\nAnguillan Creole English\n||Ani\nAnii\nAnimere\nAnindilyakwa\nAnjam\nAnkave\nAnmatyerre\nAnor\nAnserma\nAnsus\nAntakarinya\nAntigua and Barbuda Creole English\nAnu\nAnuak\nAnufo\nAnuki\nAnus\nAnuta\nAnyin\nAnyin Morofo\nAoheng\nAore\nAp Ma\nApache, Jicarilla\nApache, Kiowa\nApache, Lipan\nApache, Mescalero-Chiricahua\nApache, Western\nApalaí\nApali\nApalik\nApatani\nApiacá\nApinayé\nApma\nA-Pucikwar\nApurinã\nAputai\nArabana\nArabela\nArabic, Algerian Saharan Spoken\nArabic, Algerian Spoken\nArabic, Babalia Creole\nArabic, Baharna Spoken\nArabic, Chadian Spoken\nArabic, Cypriot Spoken\nArabic, Dhofari Spoken\nArabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken\nArabic, Egyptian Spoken\nArabic, Gulf Spoken\nArabic, Hadrami Spoken\nArabic, Hasanya\nArabic, Hassaniyya\nArabic, Hijazi Spoken\nArabic, Judeo-Iraqi\nArabic, Judeo-Moroccan\nArabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian\nArabic, Judeo-Tunisian\nArabic, Judeo-Yemeni\nArabic, Levantine Bedawi Spoken\nArabic, Libyan Spoken\nArabic, Mesopotamian Spoken\nArabic, Moroccan Spoken\nArabic, Najdi Spoken\nArabic, North Levantine Spoken\nArabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken\nArabic, Omani Spoken\nArabic, Sa`idi Spoken\nArabic, Sanaani Spoken\nArabic, Shihhi Spoken\nArabic, Shuwa\nArabic, South Levantine Spoken\nArabic, Standard\nArabi
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I found this on the CIA's world fact book:\n\n"English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language"
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China (listen (help·info); Traditional Chinese: 中國; Simplified Chinese: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhōngguó) is a geographical region in East Asia and Central Asia. With over one-fifth of the world's population, the majority of China exists today as a state known as the People's Republic of China, but it also refers to a long-standing civilization comprising successive states and cultures dating back more than 4,000 years.\n\nWith one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and the world's longest continuously used written language system, China's history has been largely characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent imperial dynastic change. The country's territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the North China Plain, and varied according to its changing fortunes to include multiple regions of East, Northeast, and Central Asia. (The term "China proper" is used by some observers and historians to describe the core territory historically home to the majority Han Chinese, as opposed to lands associated later with China such as what is now Xinjiang.) For centuries, Imperial China was also one of the world's most technologically advanced civilizations, and East Asia's dominant cultural influence, with an impact lasting to the present day.\n\nBy the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, China's political, economic, and military influence declined relative to the growing regional power of Japan and the influence of Western powers. The imperial system in China ended with the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) under Sun Yat-sen in 1912; however, the next four decades of ROC rule were marred by warlord control, the Second Sino-Japanese War during which the Empire of Japan occupied large parts of China, and the Chinese Civil War which pitted Chinese Nationalists against the Communist forces.\n\nAfter its victory in the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the Nationalists to retreat and relocate the ROC government to the island of Taiwan, which it had governed since the end of World War II. Since then, the ROC has maintained administrative control over Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, several islands off the coast of Fujian province including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, and some islands in the South China Sea.\n\nHome to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations, China boasts a history rich in over 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such universally significant contributions as Confucianism. Credited with shaping much of Chinese thought, Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China's history, and mastery of Confucian texts provided the primary criterion for entry into the imperial bureaucracy.\n\nWith the rise of Western economic and military power beginning in the mid-19th century, however, non-Chinese systems of social and political organization gained adherents in China. Some of these would-be reformers totally rejected China's cultural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of Chinese and Western cultures. In essence, the history of 20th Century China is one of experimentation to find a new system of social, political, and economic organization that would allow for the reintegration of the nation in the wake of dynastic collapse.\n\nChinese art has varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology, as well as influenced by great philosophers, teachers and religion. Early forms of art in China were made from potte
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According to UN there are 6 main or offical languages spoken in the world and they are English, Chinise, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, French.
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There are many different "dialects" such as Mandarin (the national language AKA "putonghua"), Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghainese, Minnan, and the list goes on and on. Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong and a couple provinces in China. All education in all Chinese regions, including Taiwan, is done in Mandarin. Mandarin is the only language you will want to learn for business in China. I live in China and speak fluent Mandarin.\n\nIn fact you can check back on my website from time to time as I plan to have Mandarin lessons one day soon.\n\nwww.culturev.com\n\nI found a few sites for you below.\n\nZai Jian! (see you later)
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So exactly how many countries are there in the world…you think this would be easy to find out. Try it yourself. Open that atlas that your Gran bought you for your last birthday and start counting…whatever answer you get will probably be wrong. \nYou see the number of countries in the world is constantly changing. For example with the demise of the Soviet Union a whole load of new countries sprang up overnight.\n\nAdding to this confusion is the fact that some countries aren’t recognised by other countries. Again in the former Soviet Union there are three self proclaimed independent states called South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transdniester – why haven’t you heard of them...well no-one in the international community will actually recognize that they exist…they obviously don’t know the right people. \n\nAnd even though most encyclopaedias seem to suggest that there are officially 193 countries in the world ask George Bush he’ll tell you there are only 192. Why…because he doesn’t include Taiwan. You see China claims that Taiwan is actually a province of China…and George doesn’t want to get on the wrong side of the Chinese!! \n\nAs King, and as a gesture of goodwill I have decided that I will recognise that there are 193 countries in the world…there you go Taiwan your in! I therefore declare that my country is the 194th country in the world!! Glad that’s settled.
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I found this answer at the website below....I hope this helps....it certainly suprised me!\n\nLinguists estimate that there are anywhere from 4,000 to more than 10,000 distinct languages still spoken! Many linguists give a figure of 6,000-7,000, more or less following the lead of the reference work: (Ethnologue languages of the world).  The 14th edition came out in November 2000.\n\nHowever, many Sign languages (see entry SIGN LANGUAGES) have been omitted from these counts (the Ethnologue lists 103) — ((see the 2nd link below)).\n\nSo, the actual number of languages is much larger and could even be twice that high! \n\nWOW!\n:)\nPeace
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There are many different Chinese dialects.  They all share the same writing system, however (the traditional Chinese characters you see in Chinatown, in tattoos, etc.).  The Chinese writing system lacks an alphabet (i.e. each character represents a single word), which probably helped encourage local dialects in developing, since there was no alphabet to guide or standardize people's spoken language.\n\nThe official dialect of mainland China and Taiwan is Mandarin Chinese, but pretty much every area of China has its own localized dialect (Shanghai has Shanghainese, Beijing has Beijingnese, Taiwan has Taiwanese, etc).  You may notice that many Chinese immigrants in North America speak Cantonese, which is a dialect most notably spoken in Hong Kong, the source of much Asian entertainment, but even there the official language is now Mandarin after it was handed back to mainland China in 1997.
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Mandarin Chinese by far.  It is the official language in China, Taiwan, Singapore.  And it is spoken many oversea Chinese around the world.
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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Chinese.  Most widely spoken.\nAnd China is getting bigger and bigger (not just in terms of population)....\nWhere in the world is there not a Chinatown?
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ANSWER: Although a language can be defined as differently from one person to the next, SIL International, the pre-eminent source for the catalogue of languages around the world, claim there are 6,912 known languages.\n\nEDIT: Posted wrong link, this is correct\n\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp
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Chinese is a family of closely-related but mutually unintelligible languages. These languages are known variously as fāngyán (regional languages), dialects of Chinese or varieties of Chinese. In all over 1.2 billion people speak one or more varieties of Chinese. \n\nAll varieties of Chinese belong to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and each one has its own dialects and sub-dialects, which are more or less mutually intelligible. \n\nAll varieties of Chinese are tonal. This means that each syllable can have a number of different meanings depending on the intonation with which it is pronounced. For example Mandarin has 4 tones, Cantonese has between 6 and 9 (it depends who you ask). \n\nMost people in China and Taiwan who don't speak Mandarin as their first language, can speak or at least understand it a bit. However in Hong Kong and Macau few people speak Mandarin, so they tend to use English to communicate with people from other parts of China or Taiwan. \n\nCantonese is spoken by about 66 million people in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and Hainan island in China, and also in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and many other countries.
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Actually, The first most spoken language is chinese.....Then comes English, then Hindi...\n\n1st - Mandarin\n2nd - English\n3rd - Hindi\n4th - Spanish\n5th - Arabic
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There are only two official Indian languages used by the central government and those are hindi and english.  There are also twenty two other languages that are offial for use in local governments.  Approximately forty languages are spoken in india.  I think this should be exactly what you were asking.
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There would probably be three official languages: English, Spanish, and Chinese.  I believe they are the most-spoken languages on the planet.  I could be wrong, though.