By enforcing Standard Spoken and Written Chinese in all schools and public institutions, the government is effectively ...

The Chinese government is imposing Chinese-medium education and ideological indoctrination on kindergarten children in its ...

Tibetan Buddhist nuns read from their textbooks as they attend a Chinese language learning class at the Tibetan Buddhist College near Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Monday, May 31, ...

While English tends to view the ‘Chinese language’ as a monolith, the phrase actually represents a large diversity of both written and spoken languages, many of which are not mutually understandable.

Yue Chinese has 86.6 million users and is the 20th most-spoken language in the world. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Belonging to the Turkik language family, Turkish is used as the ...

In 1935, a group of left-wing students in Shanghai warned that ongoing efforts to reform the Chinese language and make it easier for the mostly illiterate population to learn risked “setting up a ...

How is the Chinese government marking international mother language day on February 21? By legalizing the erasure of mother languages. In December 2025, according to the NPC Observer, the National ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 30 most spoken languages in the world in 2024. If you would like to skip our discussion on the language services market, you can go to the 5 Most Spoken ...