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Standard Mandarin, (國語/国语) also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used by the Mainland China, Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.
The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect of the Mandarin language, a large and diverse group of Chinese dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China. The vocabulary is largely drawn from this group of dialects. The grammar is standardized to the body of modern literary works written in Vernacular Chinese, which in practice follows the same tradition of the Mandarin dialects with some notable exceptions. As a result, Standard Mandarin itself is usually just called "Mandarin" in non-academic, everyday usage. However, linguists use "Mandarin" to refer to the entire language. This convention will be adopted by the rest of this article.
Standard Mandarin is officially known
- in the People's Republic of China as Pǔtōnghuà (traditional Chinese: 普通話; simplified Chinese: 普通话, literally "common speech")
- in the Republic of China (Taiwan) as Guóyǔ (traditional Chinese: 國語; simplified Chinese: 国语, literally "national language")
- in Malaysia and Singapore as Huáyǔ (traditional Chinese: 華語; simplified Chinese: 华语, literally "Chinese (in a cultural sense) language").
All three terms are used interchangeably in Chinese communities around the world.[citation needed]
Source: Wikipedia