A frightening 1,197,000,000 people speak ‘Chinese’, which as a macrolanguage includes different languages and dialects; Gan (20.6m speakers), Hakka (30.1m), Huizhou (4.6m), Jinyu (45m), Min Bei (10.3m), Min Nan (46.6m), Pu-Xian (2.56m), Ziang (36m), Cantonese (62.2m), Wu (77.2m), Min Zhong (3.10m), Min Dong (9.12m) and of course Mandarin (848m)
It’s spoken primarily in China by 1,152m people, but also in Taiwain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Myanmar, Macau, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
