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-'''Mandarin''' (Chinese: 華語, lit. ''Chinese speech''), also known as '''Wah-yu''' and officially as '''New [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing Namgin] Mandarin''', 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koin%C3%A9_language koiné]. It was implemented as reunified China's sole official language in 1942 by the new Republican government.
+'''Mandarin''' (Chinese: 華語, lit. ''Chinese speech''), also known as '''Wah-yu''', 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koin%C3%A9_language koiné]. It was implemented as reunified China's sole official language in 1942 by the new Republican government.
 == History ==
-==== Old Namgin Mandarin (1550-1860) ====
+==== Old Mandarin (1550-1860) ====
 ==== Imperial Cantonese (1860-1931) ====
-==== Formation of the New Namgin dialect (1931-1942) ====
+==== Formation of neo-Mandarin (1931-1942) ====
 == Geographic distribution ==

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