你好!
say it: “nee how”
Mandarin Chinese
in its own words: 中文
- Speakers
- 1.1 billion
- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- People's Republic of China, North Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Taiwan, Province of China, Vietnam
Fun fact
It is not written with letters but with characters for whole words. To read a newspaper you need to know about three thousand of them.