Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Georgia
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
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
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
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Derived From
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Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
chinois
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
sini1245
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic