1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
- Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
- 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
Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Com estàs?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Bona nit
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bona tarda
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
France, Portugal, Spain
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Spain
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
2,400,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Spain
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
9.20 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
4.10 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.10 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
catalan; valencien
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Catalan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Catalan
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating