Chinese is a group of closely related languages spoken in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Singapore. Though most native speakers consider Chinese to be a single language with a number of dialects, linguists point out that these dialects are as diverse as the Romance languages, resulting in mutual unintelligibility among the least similar. As in other countries where strong dialects have flourished, a standardized form of the language, called Standard Chinese, has been adopted as... więcej

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