Editing Mandarin Chinese (section)

====Singapore====
{{main|Singaporean Mandarin}}
Mandarin is one of the four official languages of [[Singapore]] along with [[English language|English]], [[Malay language|Malay]], and [[Tamil language|Tamil]]. Historically, it was seldom used by the [[Chinese Singaporeans|Chinese Singaporean community]], which primarily spoke the Southern Chinese languages of [[Hokkien]], [[Teochew dialect|Teochew]], [[Cantonese]], or [[Hakka Chinese|Hakka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?p=20025|title=Envisioning Chinese Identity and Multiracialism in Singapore|author=Leong Koon Chan|access-date=14 February 2011|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521215819/http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?p=20025|url-status=dead}}</ref> The launch of the [[Speak Mandarin Campaign]] in 1979 by the government prioritized the language over traditional vernaculars in an attempt to create a common ethnic language and foster closer connections to China.<ref>Lee Kuan Yew, "From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965–2000", HarperCollins, 2000 ({{ISBN|0-06-019776-5}})</ref> This has led to a significant increase and presence of Mandarin usage in the country, coupled with a strong decline in usage of other Chinese variants.

[[Standard Singaporean Mandarin]] is nearly identical to the standards of China and Taiwan, with minor vocabulary differences. It is the Mandarin variant used in education, media, and official settings. Meanwhile, a colloquial form called Singdarin is used in informal daily life and is heavily influenced in terms of both grammar and vocabulary by local languages such as Cantonese, Hokkien, and Malay. Instances of code-switching with English, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay, or a combination of any of these is also common.