Mandarin or Chinese?

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what is the difference between Mandarin and Chinese?

Ozzourti · Accepted Answer

What is the difference between Mandarin and Chinese?

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AlpheccaStars · Answer

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/mandarin

Mandarin
The standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect, spoken by over 730 million people.
A Chinese official
A porcelein with Chinese figures
There is a Mandarin Duck, and a Mandarin Orange.
Chinese:
A language spoken in the country, China.
A person born in China or a decendents of Chinese heritage.
There is Chinese food, Chinese restaurant, Chinese checkers, Chinese lantern and Chinese cabbage.

Clive · Answer

Westerners use these terms as follows.
Mandarin refers to the language used in 'mainland China'.
Chinese refers to both Mandarin and Cantonese.

Clive

AlpheccaStars · Answer

CliveChinese refers to both Mandarin and Cantonese.

Chinese is the general term for this family of Asian languages. There are many of them!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_varieties_of_Chinese

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