Where does Mandarin, the official language of China, come from?

Standard Mandarin/ (Mandarin) is another name of modern standard Chinese, with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect (Mandarin) as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm.

As one of the working languages of the United Nations, Mandarin has become an important bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and the first choice for foreigners to learn Chinese. The Implementation Plan of the National Common Language Popularization Project plans to "basically popularize the national common language in the whole country by 2020", specifically, the average popularization rate of Putonghua in the whole country is over 80%.

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Mandarin pronunciation has distinct characteristics:

1, with simple syllable structure and loud voice. In Putonghua, there are only four phonemes in a syllable, among which loud vowels are dominant and are indispensable components in general syllables.

There can be several vowels (up to three) in a syllable, such as "huài", and there are no consonants in Mandarin syllables, that is, there is no "lightning" in English and "встреча (meeting)" in Russian.

2. Clear syllables and strong sense of rhythm. Chinese syllables are generally composed of initials, finals and tones. First, the initials, then the finals, and then a tone runs through the whole syllable, so there are obvious syllable boundaries. From the perspective of phoneme analysis, consonants and vowels appear regularly at intervals, which gives people a sense of circulation and is very convenient for syllable segmentation.

3, the tone is cadence and expressive. The tones of Putonghua have obvious changes, such as rising, rising, turning and falling, which can strongly express one's feelings.

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