Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
آسف
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
chinois
  
arabe
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic