Mandarin Chinese

Native Speakers: 1.3 Billion


There’s no doubt Mandarin Chinese stands first among the most spoken languages in the world. The dialects of this language are rich and diverse. Chinese is a tonal language that uses thousands of logograms.


This is a language that one in six people in the world speaks. The speakers range from North-eastern to Beijing, Southwestern to Yin-Lan including several others like China (languages of China), Taiwan (languages of Taiwan), Malaysia, and New York. The majority of the translation companies convert Chinese to English translation and vice versa for the language translation services.


A few facts about the Mandarin language:

  • In Chinese, Mandarin is called pǔtōnghuà, literally “common speech”.
  • The writing system is character-based and you can learn to write Chinese characters using Scripts!
Thousands of characters to represent morphemes and words. Photo: https:Optilingo.com
Thousands of characters to represent morphemes and words. Photo: https:Optilingo.com
Chinese characters associated with the radical 女 (woman). Photo: Pinterest
Chinese characters associated with the radical 女 (woman). Photo: Pinterest

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages

  1. top 1 Mandarin Chinese
  2. top 2 Spanish
  3. top 3 English
  4. top 4 Hindi
  5. top 5 Arabic
  6. top 6 Portuguese
  7. top 7 Bengali
  8. top 8 Russian
  9. top 9 Japanese
  10. top 10 Lahnda (Western Punjabi)

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