Chinese Translation

Professional Translation Services

In a population of approximately 1.4 billion, China has 302 individual languages with a fifth of the entire world’s population speaking some form of Chinese natively. The demand for Chinese translation services has increased exponentially. At M&D we have a team of dedicated, native speaking translators who have over 28 years experience working with a full range of industries to provide high quality, accurate translations throughout the UK.

Linguists have divided Chinese into eight to ten main language groups with each group having several sub-dialects.

The team here at M&D are experienced Chinese language translators, no matter which language group or dialect you require, we are here to help, translating everything from legal and medical documents to packaging labels.

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Chinese Language Translators

Below are the most common groups that our Chinese language translators can translate, if you would like more information please do not hesitate to contact us.

Mandarin

Spoken by over 1 billion native speakers globally, Mandarin is by far the most used language in the world today.

Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese (also known as common speech) is one of Mandarin’s many dialects and is the official language of China and Taiwan.

Standard Chinese is also one of four languages spoken in Singapore and one of the six languages used in the UN and is taught in schools as well as being predominantly used in business.

Cantonese (Yue)

A well-known variant of Chinese with approximately 80 million speakers in China alone.

Some of the key differences of Cantonese compared with Mandarin include its nine tones and much longer vowel length.

Other Chinese language groups are:

Gan, Hakka, Min, Wu (Shanghainese), Xiang (Hunanese)

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