mandarin tone

Mandarin ( / ˈmændərɪn / ⓘ MAN-də-rin; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. best mandarin song 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard