![]() Cantonese is another Chinese language that is the official language of Hong Kong and Macau. It is also one of the four official languages of Singapore. Standard Chinese based on the Beijing dialect is the official language of China and Taiwan. To standardise the diversity in languages and foster comprehension, written language has become the way of communication among speakers of different languages that fall in the Chinese category. Speakers of these languages do not comprehend each other since the languages are totally different from each other. The others in the list with significant numbers speaking the language are Wu (with 80 million speakers), Min (70 million), and Yue (60 million). Of these, the largest in terms of native speakers is Mandarin with approximately 960 million speakers. The language consists of between 7 and 13 regional groups of languages that are quite different from each other. Almost 1.2 billion people all over the world speak the language. ![]() It is an umbrella term for a variety of languages from the Sino-Tibetan group of languages.
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