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Is Chinese a language

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No. Chinese is not a language. It is a family of languages, much like West Germanic. There are many different Chinese languages, such as Mandarin (the most widely spoken one), Cantonese (the most spoken in the Western world), Hakka, Taishanese, Taiwanese, and Hokkien. However, when people say "Chinese" they most often mean Mandarin.

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Yes, Chinese is a language. It is a group of related languages that are spoken by over a billion people primarily in China, but also in other parts of the world like Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese communities around the globe.

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