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'''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 languagedialect in 1942 by the new Republicanrepublican government.