Talk:Chinese Phonetics/@comment-34100788-20180125023013/@comment-7882956-20180125222814

Why would it be "Chinese is the most spoken language in the world" though? The Mandarin dialect is literally the official spoken language of China and is spoken by pretty much 70% of the population in that country. The rest are other dialects of Chinese or other languages. It's the most spoken language of the world mostly because of the large population of the Chinese plus people choosing it as a second language (especially for business purposes). The only reason why you don't always hear it outside of Asia is because the language is not as wide-spread (or a global presence) as English or any European languages are. Most of the people who speak Mandarin live in China and the surrounding areas, plus any family who immigrated elsewhere (whether they choose to teach their children the language is another matter).

Saying "Chinese is the most spoken" would be incorrect when you start cutting things down into dialects. You'll end up getting category after sub-category, and in addition, we even had people complain that the wikia should not put down "Chinese" as the language because the VOCALOIDs specifically spoke Mandarin Chinese. This was solidified after Xin Hua released because then people were getting confused and fighting about her Taiwanese origins.