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Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. From an official point of view, Standard Chinese serves the purpose of a lingua francaâa way for speakers of the several mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese, as well as the Chinese minorities, to communicate with each other.
There is quite a number of specific words used in Singaporean Mandarin that originate from other Chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese etc. These dialects have also influenced the pronunciation in Singaporean Mandarin.