Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Mesedez
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Agur
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
France
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Not available
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Not Available
  
French Name
basque
  
chinois
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
Han
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Basque and Chinese Speaking population
Basque and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and Chinese on Basque vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Basque and Chinese Language Codes
Basque and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.