Which countries in the world speak Chinese?

The global Chinese-speaking countries include China (mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan provinces) and overseas Chinese areas such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar.

1. Singapore is a multilingual country with four official languages, namely English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. Singapore officially uses simplified Chinese, which is consistent with that of Chinese mainland. However, during the period from 1969 to 1979, there were their own simplified Chinese characters standards in a short time, and simplified Chinese characters were the main ones among the people, but occasionally traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters were mixed.

2. The official language of Malaysia is Malay, but because Malaysian Chinese insist on defending the Chinese courses in Chinese primary schools, Chinese independent middle schools and ethnic middle schools, and with the support of Chinese newspapers and media, as well as Chinese community organizations, they can generally talk fluently in Chinese. Use standard Chinese in schools, radio and television, public formal occasions or speeches in China.

3. Indonesian Chinese newspapers used to have Indonesian Daily sponsored by the government. In recent two years, Chinese Post (translation between Chinese and Indonesian), Business Daily, Xinsheng Daily and Thousand Island Daily have been newly established.

4. Thailand, there are about 9 million Chinese in Thailand, accounting for 14% of the national population, and it is the largest ethnic group except Thais. A large number of Chinese immigrated to Thailand mainly from the second half of19th century to 1930s. At present, Chinese mainly live in Bangkok and the central part of the peninsula, and people's daily communication is mainly in Chinese.

5. Vietnam is a multilingual and multi-ethnic country with 54 officially recognized ethnic groups. The 54 ethnic groups recognized by the Vietnamese government belong to the following five language families: South Asian, Zhuang Dong, Miao Yao, austronesian family and Sino-Tibetan. Voice of Vietnam Radio Station was established in 1954, and has four domestic programs, which are broadcast in Vietnamese and several minority languages including Chinese.

6. The influential Chinese newspapers in Cambodia include Chinese Business Daily, Cambodian Chinese Daily, Sin Chew Daily, etc. There are about 6,543,800 overseas Chinese in Cambodia.

7. Chinese in Myanmar account for about 3% of the country's total population. 65,438+0,997,65,438+0,654,38 10, the Chinese newspaper Myanmar Hua Bao was founded, which was the only Chinese newspaper in Myanmar that was allowed to be published publicly, and then it was closed. 20 12 September, Myanmar Chinese online line.

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