Name
The name "Mandarin", as a direct translation of the Chinese Guānhuà (官话/官話, "language of the officials"), was initially applied to the koiné of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was based on various northern dialects. It has since been extended both to the modern standard language and backward to early northern dialects.
The language was called Hàn'er yányǔ (漢兒言語, "Hàn'er language") or Hànyǔ in the Korean Chinese-language textbook Nogeoldae, after the name Hàn'er or Hànrén used by the Mongols for their northern Chinese subjects, in contrast to Nánrén for southern Chinese.
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