Draft:Outline of the Chinese language

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chinese:

What type of thing is Chinese?
Chinese can be described as all of the following:
 * Chinese language – as a holistic linguistic entity with wide variation
 * the Sinitic languages – a large language family with many mutually unintelligible varieties
 * Standard Chinese
 * Chinese characters

History of the Chinese language

 * History of the Chinese language