1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Not Available
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Caucasian languages
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
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Abkhazia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Caucasus
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Turkey
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
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
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative