# written vernacular Chinese

> forms of written Chinese based on the varieties of Chinese spoken throughout China, as opposed to Classical Chinese

**Wikidata**: [Q783605](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q783605)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_vernacular_Chinese)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/written-vernacular-chinese


## References

1. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013