Editing Standard Chinese (section)

===In English===
Among linguists, Standard Chinese has been referred to as ''Standard Northern Mandarin''<ref name="John Rohsenow 2004" /><ref name="Yunyun Ran 2016" /><ref name="David Bradley 2008" /> or ''Standard Beijing Mandarin''.<ref name="Jeff Siegel 2003" /><ref name="Ying-Chuan Chen2013"/> It is colloquially referred to as simply ''Mandarin'',<ref name="Weng, Jeffrey 2018 611–633" /> though this term may also refer to the [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin dialect group]] as a whole, or the late imperial [[Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)|form used as a lingua franca]].<ref name="Robert M Sanders 1987">{{Citation |last=Sanders |first=Robert M. |title=The Four Languages of "Mandarin" |date=1987 |work=Sino-Platonic Papers |issue=4 |url=http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp004_mandarin_chinese.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307022502/http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp004_mandarin_chinese.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-07}}</ref>{{sfnp|Norman|1988|p=136}}<ref>{{Citation |title=Mandarin |work=Oxford Dictionary |url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/mandarin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703095204/https://www.lexico.com/definition/mandarin |archive-date=3 July 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Weng, Jeffrey 2018 611–633" /> "Mandarin" is a translation of ''Guanhua'' ({{zhi|s=官话|t=官話|first=t|l=bureaucrat speech}}),{{sfnp|Mair|2013|p=737}} which referred to the late imperial lingua franca.{{sfnp|Mair|1991|pp=11–12}} The term ''Modern Standard Mandarin'' is used to distinguish it from older forms.{{sfnp|Mair|2013|p=737}}{{sfnp|Coblin|2000|p=537}}