Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; lit. 'modern indications Han speech'—in dialect of Mandarin Chinese that emerged as a lingua franca among speakers of Mandarin & other varieties of Chinese Hokkien, Cantonese, et cetera in a 20th century. it is designated as the official language of mainland China as alive as a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. it is based on the Beijing dialect.

Like other Sinitic languages, specifications Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent company and subject–verb–object SVO word order. Compared with southern Chinese varieties, the Linguistic communication has fewer vowels,consonants and tones, but more initial consonants. It is an analytic language, albeit with numerous compound words.

Phonology

The usual point of analysis is the syllable, consisting of an optional initial consonant, an optional medial glide, a main vowel and an optional coda, and further distinguished by a tone.

The palatal initials [tɕ], [tɕʰ] and [ɕ] pose a classic problem of phonemic analysis. Since they occur only previously high front vowels, they are in complementary distribution with three other series, the dental sibilants, retroflexes and velars, which never occur in this position.