1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
France, Spain
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
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
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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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
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
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Eskerrik asko
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Zer moduz?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Arratsalde on
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Arratsalde on
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Maite zaitut
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Navarro-Lapurdian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
France
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
France, Soule, Spain
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.008,700.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Spain
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 million7.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million7.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Not available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
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
Vasconic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
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))
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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
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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