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=== Standard Chinese ===
{{Main|Standard Chinese}}
{{See also|List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language}}
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Standard Chinese is the [[standard language]] of China (where it is called {{zhi|s=普通话|p=pǔtōnghuà}}) and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called either {{zhi|s=华语|t=華語|p=Huáyǔ}} or {{zhi|s=汉语|t=漢語|p=Hànyǔ}}). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The governments of both China and Taiwan intend for speakers of all Chinese speech varieties to use it as a common language of communication. Therefore, it is used in government agencies, in the media, and as a language of instruction in schools.

[[Diglossia]] is common among Chinese speakers. For example, a Shanghai resident may speak both Standard Chinese and [[Shanghainese]]; if they grew up elsewhere, they are also likely fluent in the dialect of their home region. In addition to Standard Chinese, a majority of [[Taiwanese people]] also speak [[Taiwanese Hokkien]] (also called {{zhi|t=台語|l=Taiwanese}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=何 |first1=信翰 |title=自由廣場》Taigi與台語 |url=https://talk.ltn.com.tw/amp/article/paper/1309601 |access-date=11 July 2021 |agency=自由時報 |date=10 August 2019 |archive-date=11 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711235128/https://talk.ltn.com.tw/amp/article/paper/1309601 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfnp|Li|2010}}), [[Hakka language|Hakka]], or an [[Austronesian language]].{{sfnp|Klöter|2004}} A speaker in Taiwan may mix pronunciations and vocabulary from Standard Chinese and other [[languages of Taiwan]] in everyday speech.{{sfnp|Kuo|2005}} In part due to traditional cultural ties with [[Guangdong]], Cantonese is used as an everyday language in [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]].