Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
France
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Bonjour
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
désolé
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Wu
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Français
  
French Name
chinois
  
français
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic