1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Myanmar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali Language
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
Tangut
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)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Myanmar
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Burma
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
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
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Burmese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Burmese 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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Analytic, Isolating