1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.004,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.002,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million400.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed English
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
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic