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'''Mandarin''' (Chinese: 華語, lit. ''Chinese speech'')
== History ==
== Geographic distribution ==
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== See also ==
* [[China]]
* [[Qing]]
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Mandarin (Chinese: 華語, lit. Chinese speech) is a Sinitic language and acts as the official language and lingua franca of China. Modern Mandarin began forming in the 1860s after the Canton War, eventually becoming a koiné. It was implemented as reunified China's sole official dialect in 1942 by the republican government.