History of Chinese Language
About 95% of the population of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan speak chinese. This is a large demographic area as they number roughly 1 billion people. While only 5 percent, a true minority, use languages like Tibetan, Mongolian, Lolo, Miao, and Tai. In addition, the chinese language is spoken by large neighborhoods in Southeast Asia, North and South America, and in the Hawaiian Islands. This means that Chinese is the most spoken than any other language in the world. . English ranks second in number of speakers and Spanish third.
The Chinese language, along with Tibetan, Burmese and most native languages of South and Southeast Asia, comes from the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Unlike the majority of Western languages, Chinese and southeast Asian langauges are monosyllabic, tonal and have significantly less infleciton as English. In contrast to western languages, tonal languages have a noticeable relative pitch high or low or a rising or falling pitch contour level.
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