1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bulgaria, European Union
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
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Macedonian language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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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
Cyrillic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, 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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bulgaria
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
Bulgaria
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
Bulgaria
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Bulgarian Sign Language
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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