MANDARINCHINESE
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is also referred to as the "northern dialect". When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers than any other language.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Mandarin Chinese
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