Country Info

China Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 1,311,714,304 people (95% of China) that can read or write at least one language.

25 Writing Systems used in China

Chinese (Simplified)

zh-hans
language code
1,241,370,000
people

Wu Chinese (Simplified)

wuu-hans
language code
82,758,000
people

Cantonese (Simplified)

yue-hans
language code
71,723,597
people

Xiang Chinese (Simplified)

hsn-hans
language code
39,999,701
people

Hakka Chinese (Simplified)

hak-hans
language code
31,723,899
people

Min Nan Chinese (Simplified)

nan-hans
language code
26,206,699
people

Gan Chinese (Simplified)

gan-hans
language code
23,448,100
people

Sichuan Yi (Yi)

ii-yiii
language code
8,275,800
people

Uyghur (Arabic)

ug-arab
language code
7,586,150
people

Zhuang (Latin)

za-latn
language code
4,275,830
people

Mongolian (Mongolian)

mn-mong
language code
3,586,179
people

Tibetan (Tibetan)

bo-tibt
language code
2,758,600
people

Korean (Korean)

ko-kore
language code
2,068,950
people

Kazakh (Arabic)

kk-arab
language code
1,186,198
people

Lisu (Fraser)

lis-lisu
language code
620,685
people

Kyrgyz (Arabic)

ky-arab
language code
468,962
people

Naxi (Latin)

nxq-latn
language code
331,032
people

(New Tai Lue)

khb-talu
language code
262,066
people

Tai Nüa (Tai Le)

tdd-tale
language code
262,066
people

Western Lawa (Thai)

lcp-thai
language code
79,999
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
62,068
people

Russian (Cyrillic)

ru-cyrl
language code
13,793
people

Vietnamese (Latin)

vi-latn
language code
6,896
people

Uzbek (Cyrillic)

uz-cyrl
language code
5,517
people

Literary Chinese (Simplified)

lzh-hans
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR