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    How many people speak Chinese?

    Question #112899. Asked by tinamomnsox. (Feb 16 10 5:26 PM)


    serpa

    		About 1.3 billion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

    Feb 16 10, 6:41 PM
    tinamomnsox

    		Incorrect.

    Feb 16 10, 11:32 PM
    unclerick

    		The answer would be zero. There really isn't a language called Chinese. China has two main languages being Mandarin and Cantonese. Mandarin is used as the official language of both mainland China and Taiwan. The websites vary greatly as to the number of speakers in each language
    http://khuang.com/chinese/dif.htm

    This site says there are approximately 867 million Mandarin speakers.
    http://www.alsintl.com/resources/languages/Mandarin/

    This one says there are 70 million Cantonese speakers. If there are 1.2 billion people in mainland China alone then the math is off somewhere.
    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cantonese/About_Cantonese




    Feb 17 10, 12:22 PM
    tinamomnsox

    		Good job, Unclerick. I wondered if anyone would catch on.

    Feb 17 10, 4:07 PM

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