Xiang (language)
| Xiang 湘 语 Xiāng yǔ |
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Spoken in |
People's Republic of China ( Hunan , Sichuan , and northern Guangxi ) | |
| speaker | 30.85 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
zh (Chinese languages) |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) chi (Chinese languages) | ( T ) zho (Chinese languages) |
| ISO 639-3 |
hsn, zho (macro language, Chinese languages) |
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Xiang ( Chinese 湘 語 / 湘 语 , Pinyin Xiāng yǔ ) is one of the Chinese languages . It is named after the Xiang River and is spoken by over 30 million people, mainly in Hunan Province . Xiang was also Mao Zedong's mother tongue .
