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Languages Spoken in China

Official: Chinese and Mandarin Chinese

China has a population of 1.4 billion and is a linguistically diverse country, with 14 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. Chinese and Mandarin Chinese serve as the official languages. Of the languages spoken in China, 6 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

1.4B
Population
14
Languages
6
LEXIGO

Languages spoken in China

Chinese Official
Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters
LEXIGO translation services →
90%
CLDR
Wu Chinese
Chinese characters
6%
CLDR
Cantonese
Cantonese Braille, Simplified Chinese
5%
CLDR
Xiang Chinese
Chinese characters
3%
CLDR
Hakka Chinese
Chinese characters, Pe̍h-ōe-jī
2%
CLDR
Min Nan Chinese
Chinese characters, Pe̍h-ōe-jī
2%
CLDR
Gan Chinese
Chinese characters
2%
CLDR
Sichuan Yi
Yi script
0.6%
CLDR
Uyghur Regional
Arabic script, Cyrillic script
LEXIGO translation services →
0.6%
CLDR
Zhuang Regional
Latin script, Sawndip
0.3%
CLDR
Mongolian Regional
Cyrillic script, Mongolian
LEXIGO translation services →
0.3%
CLDR
Tibetan Regional
Tibetan Braille, Tibetan alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
0.2%
CLDR
Korean Regional
Hangul, Hanja
LEXIGO translation services →
0.1%
CLDR
Mandarin Chinese Official
Chinese characters, Standard Chinese Braille
LEXIGO translation services →
CIA World Factbook

"Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages; note - Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uyghur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghur, ..."

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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