How old is Mandarin Chinese?

It's like over 3000 years. The earliest organized Chinese system is called 甲骨文. What is the History of Chinese? It's a mythology. In really ancient times, people tied knots to note things. read more

Mandarin Chinese, also known as Huayu (華語“language of the Chinese”), Guoyu (國語 “national language”), or Putonghua (普通話”common language”), is the official language of the People's Republic of China (since 1982) and the Republic of China (since 1932). read more

Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area, stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. read more

Old Mandarin (Chinese: 古官話; pinyin: Gǔ Guānhuà) or Early Mandarin (Chinese: 早期官話; pinyin: Zǎoqí Guānhuà) was the speech of northern China during the Jin and Yuan dynasties (12th to 14th centuries). read more