Chinese, Xiang
A language of China
| Population | 36,000,000 in China (1984). Population total all countries: 36,024,400. |
| Region | Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, over 20 counties; parts of Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. Also in United States. |
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Southern China |
| Alternate names | Hsiang, Hunan, Hunanese, Xiang |
| Dialects | Changyi, Luoshao, Jishu. Linguistically between Mandarin and Wu [wuu] Chinese and marginally intelligible with them. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese A member of macrolanguage Chinese [zho] (China). |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 91%. |
| Writing system | Han script, Simplified variant. Han script, Traditional variant. |
| Comments | Classified as Han nationality. |
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