1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating