What is Chinese language?
{{Infobox language | name = Chinese | image = Chineselanguage.svg | imagecaption = Hànyǔ (''Chinese'') written in [[Chinese characters|Hanzi]] | imagesize = | nativename = {{lang|zh|汉语／漢語}}，{{lang|zh|华语／華語}} or {{lang|zh|中文}}<br/>Hànyǔ, Huáyǔ or Zhōngwén | ethnicity = | states = [[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC, commonly known as China), [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] (ROC, commonly known as Taiwan), [[Canada]], [[Peru]], [[Thailand]], [[Vietnam]], [[Malaysia]], [[Brunei]], [[Singapore]], [[Indonesia]], [[Mauritius]], [[Australia]], the [[United States]], the [[Philippines]] and other places with Chinese communities | region = | speakers = 1.2 billion<!--including [[Overseas Chinese]]//--> | date = 1984–2000 | ref = <ref>{{Ethnologue16|zho}}</ref> | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = [[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]] | stand1 = [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]] | dia6 = [[Gan Chinese|Jiangxinese]] | dia7 = [[Hakka language|Hakka]] | dia5 = [[Xiang Chinese|Hunanese]] | dia2 = [[Jinyu Chinese|Jin]] | dia1 = [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] | dia4 = [[Wu Chinese|Wu]] (including Shanghainese) | dia3 = [[Huizhou Chinese|Huizhou]] | dia8 = [[Yue Chinese|Yue]] (including Cantonese-Taishanese) | dia9 = [[Ping Chinese|Pinghua]] | dia10 = [[Shaojiang Min|Shaojiang]] | dia11 = [[Min Bei|Northern Min]] | dia12 = [[Min Dong|Eastern Min]] (including Fuchow) | dia13 = [[Min Zhong|Central Min]] | dia14 = [[Puxian Min|Pu Xian]] | dia15 = [[Min Nan|Southern Min]] (including Amoy, Taiwanese) | dia16 = [[Teochew dialect|Teochew]] (including Swatow, Chaozhou, Jieyang, parts of Shanwei/Meizhou) | script = [[Chinese characters]], [[Zhuyin|zhuyin fuhao]], [[pinyin]], Xiao'erjing | nation = {{UNO|United Nations}