Mandarin Chinese
普通话
A Sino-Tibetan variety documented in the linguistic literature for its aspectual system and numeral classifiers, among other topics.
Documented mechanisms
Aspect and Event State
under reviewIs the action beginning, continuing, repeated, attempted or completed?
An event traverses ordered internal states: not begun, beginning, continuing, interrupted, completed. Classifier Systems
under reviewWhat kind of thing is this in the current context?
A referent is categorised into semantic classes at reference or counting time.
Each diagram is a schematic reading of how the mechanism divides meaning — not a rendering of the language's grammar.
What software could borrow from these mechanisms
Each row is a computational deficit reached through one or more capabilities documented above. Following an entry opens the code opportunity, not a claim about this language.
Languages appear in the Atlas as places where a capability has been recorded. They are not scored, ranked, or characterised as "the language of" any property. Every entry begins as under review and moves only when a source is entered by hand.
Regions and family are included only when widely documented. Coordinates on the World View — Beta are broad regional centroids, never speaker-density claims.