Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
chinois
  
allemand
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Germans
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic