Claim: Xinning County speaks Standard Mandarin (designated as one of the major languages by the United Nations) and Hanyu Pinyin (an alphabet romanization language written with the Latin alphabet, developed in the 1950's).
Evidence: Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Standard Mandarin is designated as one of the major languages in the United Nations, mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan. The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by a group of Chinese linguists including Zhou Youguang and was based on earlier forms of romanizations of Chinese. Alphabet romanization