1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Philippines
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Philippines
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Tagalog Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Spanish 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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
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?)
Kumusta
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Magandang gabi
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Magandang hapon
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Magandang umaga
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Mahal kita
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
patawarin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Philippines
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
Philippines
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.008,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.002,600,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million90.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million45.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
filipino; pilipino
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Filipino
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available