are mandarin chinese considered unreached
Mandarin (/ˈmændᵊrɪn/; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally: speech of officials) is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. 1 The largest unreached group is the Shaikh, with over 215,000,000 individuals.  The Mandarin Chinese is the largest people group, being in 82 countries with a total of about 800,000,000 individuals, and with 783,000,000 of those in China. 1 9,815 people groups by country are not considered unreached, totaling 4,269,631,000 individuals, or about 58% of the world's population.  Of the 16,500 total people groups, 6,685 are identified as unreached using Joshua Project criteria, totaling 3,110,819,000 individuals. 1 The Mandarin Chinese is the largest people group, being in 82 countries with a total of about 800,000,000 individuals, and with 783,000,000 of those in China.  Jews are found in 126 countries, Arabs in 130 countries, and Chinese groups in 127 countries. Linguists use the term Mandarin to refer to the diverse group of dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà. The alternative term Běifānghuà (北方话/北方話), or Northern dialects, is used less and less among Chinese linguists. 1 That means 84% of all unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.  1,102 of the unreached groups are NOT in the 10/40 Window, totaling 93,550,000 individuals. These groups are relatively accessible to the Gospel. 1 Of the 16,500 people groups by country, 6,685 are still considered unreached.  9,815 people groups by country are not considered unreached, totaling 4,269,631,000 individuals, or about 58% of the world's population. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Chinese, which is also referred to as Mandarin. Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as the Northern dialects (北方话; běifānghuà). Standard Chinese is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (Republic of China) and one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is also one of the most frequently used varieties of Chinese among Chinese diaspora communities internationally. Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.
No, Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers.