1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
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
Arabic, 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
您好 (Nín hǎo)
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Greece
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Italy
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0050,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Ukraine
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
grec moderne (après 1453)
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
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Greek Sign Language
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
Fusional, Synthetic