1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
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
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Equatorial Guinea
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
1.9 Similar To
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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
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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?)
kedụ ka ịmere
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
mgbede ọma
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ehihie ọma
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
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3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Nigeria
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million25.00 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
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
Standard Igbo
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative