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Migrants from Shanghai also brought Shanghainese to many overseas Chinese communities. As of 2016, 83,400 people in Hong Kong are still able to speak Shanghainese. [5] Shanghainese is sometimes viewed as a tool to discriminate against immigrants. [6] Migrants who move from other Chinese cities to Shanghai have little ability to speak Shanghainese.
As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, estimated that the total English-speaking population in China would outnumber the native speakers in the rest of the world in two decades. [ 23 ] There have been a growing number of students studying Arabic , due to reasons of cultural interest and belief in better job opportunities. [ 24 ]
The 2010 Chinese census found 9 million of Shanghai's 23 million residents (almost 40%) were migrants without a Shanghai hukou, triple the number from the year 2000 census. These "New Shanghainese" ( 新 上海人 ) are generally distinguished from the Shanghainese proper as they usually refuse to learn the Shanghainese language and force local ...
Mandarin is the lingua franca in the Chinese community in Brunei. Arguably, English is also a common medium of communication but to a lesser extent. Associations of Chinese people who speak the same dialect can be found such as the Hainan Association and Foochow Association among many others.
The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of related language varieties rather than a homogeneous language, of which many are not mutually intelligible, in the context of the spoken language such ...
Since the 1990s, many migrants outside of the Wu-speaking region have come to Shanghai for education and jobs. They often cannot speak the local language and therefore use Putonghua as a lingua franca. Because Putonghua and English were more favored, Shanghainese began to decline, and fluency among young speakers weakened.