1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Haiti
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Central America, North America
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
French Language
1.10 Derived From
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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?)
Kijan ou yé?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Bonswa
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Bon apre-midi
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Bon apre-midi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Mwen renmen w
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Northern Haitian Creole
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Cap-Haitien
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Central Haitian Creole
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Port-au-Prince
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Southern Haitian Creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cayes
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 million9.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million9.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Kreyòl ayisyen
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
haïtien; créole haïtien
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
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
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Haitian Creole
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
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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
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