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An 800-word argumentative essay on the function, significance, present situation, prospect and value of Chinese.
Chinese (Hànyǔ), also known as "Chinese", is the mother tongue of the Han nationality, [1] is also the official language of China people, China (including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and Singapore, [2] is the official language of the United Nations [1], and is also the most widely used language in the world. [3] It is also a common minority language in Malaysia, Myanmar, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Chinese is an analytical language with tones and belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese characters are the writing system of Chinese, and they are symbols, which not only express meaning, but also have certain phonetic functions. Chinese includes written language and spoken language. Written ancient Chinese is called classical Chinese, and modern written Chinese generally refers to modern standard Chinese.

Modern Chinese can be divided into dialects and Putonghua. Putonghua takes Beijing dialect as the standard pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm.