Mandarin is spoken by 70% of all Chinese within China. The language itself originated from Northern China and spread over time. Mandarin is not mutually intelligible with the other dialects, as the other dialects are actually different languages. The official language of the People's Republic of China is Mandarin, due to Mandarin being a wide-spread dialect and the dialect that officials would use in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Despite these acting as different languages, they are known in English as "dialects." There are many regional dialects of the official "dialects" of Chinese.
Within China itself, there are many different languages that are members of the Sinitic Language Family, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Yin, and so on.
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