Chinese
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the Sino-Tibetan language stock. Chinese comprises...considered separate languages by some linguists...form of Chinese is Mandarin, which may be regarded...spoken as a first language by some 835 million...Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English...Francis, The Chinese Language (1984); R. S...R. Ramsey, The Languages of China (1986...