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About Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese is a Sinitic language that developed from Old Chinese over thousands of years. It is the official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages of Singapore. With approximately 1.1 billion speakers, it is the most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.
Mandarin is written using simplified Chinese characters in mainland China and Malaysia. The writing system consists of thousands of logographic characters, with literacy requiring knowledge of about 3,000 to 4,000 characters. Mandarin is a tonal language with four main tones plus a neutral tone, meaning the same syllable can have completely different meanings depending on its pitch contour.