1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Serbain and Bosnian
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Church Slavonic
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
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kako si
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
dobra večer
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dobar dan
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Ispričavam se
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Croatia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Croatia
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million89.00 million
0.13
1200
2.10 Speaking Population
2.11 Native Speakers
873.00 million5.60 million
0.13
873
2.11.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
2.11.2 Native Name
2.11.3 Alternative Names
2.11.4 French Name
2.11.5 German Name
2.12 Pronunciation
Not Available
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
2.13 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Croatian Sign Language
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic