Claim: Xinning County in Hunan Province, China speaks Standard Mandarin (designated as one of the major languages by the United Nations) and Hanyu Pinyin (an alphabet romanization language writte with the Latin alphabet, developed in the 1950's.)
Evidence: Xinning County (Chinese: 新宁县; pinyin: Xīnníng Xiàn) is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Standard Mandarin Standard Mandarin is designated as one of the major languages in the United Nations, mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan. TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinXīnníng Hanyu Pinyin (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Hànyǔ Pīnyīn), often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in 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.