In brief
Main language: Mandarin Chinese. Glottolog classifies it in the Sino-Tibetan family.
Official figures from other countries
Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.
China · 2020
1,286,311,334
Category as printed: «汉族 (Han ethnic group)»ethnicity / nationality
[1] National Bureau of Statistics of China / Leading Group Office of the State Council for the Seventh National Population Census
Languages and their lineage
Mandarin Chinese
- Sino-Tibetansino1245
- Siniticsini1245
- Classical-Middle-Modern Siniticclas1255
- Middle-Modern Siniticmidd1354
- Northern Chinesenort3155
- Mandarinicmand1471
- Mandarin Chinesemand1415
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Peoples of the same language family
Sources
- National Bureau of Statistics of China / Leading Group Office of the State Council for the Seventh National Population Census. 第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）--全国人口情况 (Communique of the Seventh National Population Census, No. 2). https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/202302/t20230203_1901082.html
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)