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Chinese by the Numbers

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Chinese Language Map
Mandarin, 874 million speakers. Shanghaiese, 77 million speakers.
Taiwanese, Minnan, 45 million speakers. Cantonese, 71 million speakers.


Map: Mapresources.com. Data: SIL International.
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1 Written language- Chinese characters- mutually intelligible by speakers of 13 mutually unintelligible Chinese languages, as distinct as French, Romanian and Portuguese.

2 Sides of the brain used in aural comprehension of Mandarin; non-tonal English utilizes only the left side for aural comprehension.

3 Mandarin's ranking in the top 10 most commonly spoken languages in U.S. households, according to Census 2000. Only English and Spanish have more speakers.

4800 Age (in years) of oldest Chinese characters, unearthed in the province of Shandong, China.

54% Increase in the last 10 years of people in the U.S. living in a home where a language other than English is the primary language.
   

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