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The languages of modern Chinese nationalities belong to six families: That looks suspicious to me. There are several Tai-Kadai languages, which are generally classed as an independent family, and what about the various hill-tribes? We could always hedge with "at least" something, but it'd be nice to be sure. Markalexander100 07:41, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

good idea, add "at least". I got the figure 6 from a semi-official PRC website. --Menchi 07:51, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Finally got round to it. Markalexander100 04:45, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

It's 'cause the orthodox position among Chinese linguists is that Tai-Kadai is somehow a subgroup of Sino-Tibetan. Non-Chinese linguists tend to disagree. - Mustafaa 05:03, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I see the same problem with the Miao-Yao languages as Markalexander100 saw with Tai-Kadai. The resources I am familiar with treat Miao-Yao as a separate family, too. Is it mostly the Chinese linguist orthodoxy to consider them Sino-Tibetan? Could someone with more exhaustive knowledge please address this? Scalasaig (talk) 09:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Editorial comment on article in article

§ Someone has inserted the following words into the article:

Calling that a single language is politically sensitive; it contains many dialects, some mutually intelligible but others so distinct (at least in their spoken forms) that elsewhere in the world they might be treated as different languages.

§ That is an editorial comment, a book reviewer's comment. A critique of an article does not belong in an article. If something is wrong about an article it should be discussed here and then the article should be fixed.

§ Furthermore, the sentence is not clear. Did the author mean to say that calling "that" a single language is politically insensitive? Or does it mean that the question of whether two varieties of language get called two dialects of one language or get called two languages is a politically sensitive issue?

§ For the aforesaid reasons, I have moved the sentence out of the article so that it can be discussed properly. P0M 18:32, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Banknotes!

Hi! Does anyone know what the languages are, that appear on Chinese banknotes? I've been able to identify Tibetan, but none of the others... Reg, Muhamedmesic 02:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Uyghur language and Zhuang language both appear. - Mustafaa 16:48, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that the Manchurian language appears as well, but I am not an expert.

The minority languages on Chinese banknotes are Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang. Uyghur is written in the Arabic-Persian script (K̡ona Yezik̡) that was re-introduced in the 1980s; Zhuang is written in the 1957 spelling system on older banknotes (e.g. Cuŋƅgoƨ Yinƨminƨ Yinƨhaŋƨ for "Bank of China"), on newer banknotes the orthography reformed in 1986 is used (e.g. Cunghgoz Yinzminz Yinzhangz). The Manchus are one of the largest officially recognised national minorities of China, but they don't speak Manchurian any more and use Chinese instead. Babelfisch 02:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is Manchurian language the right word? I though Manchuria was a place but the language name is Manchu language.--Tricia Takanawa (talk) 16:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Official Languages

Which of the languages have official status? -- Zntrip

Hello eveyone I am so stunned about this chinese language and so should you.Stay on WiKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopesia it will always have what you need so stay on active and sign up for WiKIPEDIA and stayon for more info or data —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.155.121.227 (talk) 22:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Every language could have official status theoretically, the Government's Work Report provided five other languages, Mengol, Tibet, Uyghur, Kazakh, Chosun.--刻意(Kèyì) 06:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is going on

Is anybody watching what is happening to this article more closely than I? It appears that a couple of anonymous editors have deleted a large list that originally followed the words:

The following languages have traditionally had written forms that do not involve Chinese characters (han zi):

Hopefully these changes are not being made maliciously. P0M 04:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly sure that was vandalism- I've reverted to the previous version. Well spotted! Mark ¹ 10:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Census data for spaekers of language of PRC

Are there Census data for spaekers of language of PRC? Where I get it? For example quanty of miao language by Chna census? It is strange that 12 ethnics depopulated in 2000-2010. Why? Mistake in census? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaiyr (talk • contribs) 17:57, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Languages of china

http://books.google.com/books?id=2E_5nR0SoXoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 19:30, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanto movement

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CYqFKrihrgMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false

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http://books.google.com/books?id=1I2o7YevS5oC&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q&f=false

Chapter 4 Bilingual Loyalty

http://books.google.com/books?id=GSvujoe8kVAC&pg=PT94#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 21:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Language policy in China

Southern Chinese Dialects as a Medium for Reconciliation within Greater China Mary S. Erbaugh Language in Society Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 79-94 Published by: Cambridge University Press Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4168582

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The ethnic groups of China

The Languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups. -- the current opening sentence of the lede.

are there any unrecognized ethnic groups? do they speak? do they only speak the languages spoken by other recognized ethnic groups? Do you see the problem with the opening sentence yet? If not, please see any of the languages of English. 68.174.97.122 (talk) 23:17, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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+== The ethnic groups of China ==
+''The Languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups.'' -- the current opening sentence of the lede.
+are there any unrecognized ethnic groups? do they speak? do they only speak the languages spoken by other recognized ethnic groups? Do you see the problem with the opening sentence yet? If not, please see any of the languages of English. [[Special:Contributions/68.174.97.122|68.174.97.122]] ([[User talk:68.174.97.122|talk]]) 23:17, 27 October 2013 (UTC)