Chinese

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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Written Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, but has been heavily influenced by other varieties of Northern Mandarin.
• Background Chinese is the official language of over 1,1 billion people and, as a mother tongue, it is the most spoken language in the world.
• Let's be a little realistic here: Chinese is not the most *widely spoken* language in the world, because Chinese is not ONE spoken language.
• Since a character is generally equivalent to a syllable, it is widely held that Chinese is a monosyllabic language.
• " A 2 wēijī in Chinese is every bit as fearsome as a crisis in English.

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