Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Philippines
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
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
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Bohol
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
southern Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
chinois
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Chinese and Cebuano Speaking population
Chinese and Cebuano speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Cebuano languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Cebuano Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Cebuano on Chinese vs Cebuano where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Cebuano Language Codes
Chinese and Cebuano language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Cebuano Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.