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Mandarin

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (uncountable) Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.
  2. (uncountable) A branch of the Chinese languages, consisting of many dialects; Guanhua or Beifanghua.

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/
Etimologia (Anglès)

Calque from Chinese 官話/官话 (Guānhuà, “spoken language of the mandarins”). An extension of mandarin (“bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire”) to the language used by the imperial court and sometimes by imperial officials elsewhere. As such, it was adopted as a synonym for Modern Standard Chinese in the 20th century. The term became ambiguous, however, as its use was extended to the various Northern dialects of Chinese.

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