1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.4 National Language
3.5 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.6 Speaking Continents
3.7 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
3.8 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
3.9 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
3.10 Similar To
Not Available
Kurdish and Persian
3.11 Derived From
Not Available
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.7.2 How Many Consonants
4.11 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Perso-Arabic script
4.12 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
4.13 Hard to Learn
4.13.1 Language Levels
6.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
9 Greetings
9.1 Hello
9.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
mana bebahgsh
9.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
chone tao?
9.4 Good Night
9.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
jawáin begáh
9.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Not Available
9.7 Good Morning
9.8 Please
9.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
bebaksh / bebagsh
9.10 Bye
9.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Tu mana doost biyeh
9.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
mana bebahgsh
10 Dialects
10.1 Dialect 1
10.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Pakistan
10.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
10.3 Dialect 2
10.3.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
10.3.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
80000000
10.5 Dialect 3
10.5.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
10.5.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,400,000.00
1400
96000000
11.2 Total No. Of Dialects
12 How Many People Speak
12.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
13.3 Speaking Population
13.5 Native Speakers
873.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
13.6.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
13.7.1 Native Name
13.7.2 Alternative Names
13.7.3 French Name
13.7.4 German Name
13.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
13.9 Ethnicity
Han
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
14.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
14.3.3 Language Position
14.3.5 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
14.4 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.8.1 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
15.9.1 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available