Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 cjy
Jinyu Chinese Language 晋语
Jinyu Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 63 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Simplified Han script.
Where Jinyu Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Jinyu Chinese
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Northern Chinese
- Jinyu Chinese
Writing system
Simplified Han script
Related languages
About the Jinyu Chinese language
Jinyu Chinese (晋语) is spoken by about 63 million people, which makes it the 30th most spoken language in the world — just behind Italian (65 million) and ahead of Gujarati (60 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Northern Chinese group within the Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic branch.
Where is Jinyu Chinese spoken?
Jinyu Chinese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (63 million).
Jinyu Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Jinyu Chinese is written in the Simplified Han script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mandarin Chinese, Wu Chinese, Yue Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Xiang Chinese, Gan Chinese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 cjy.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.