1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Indonesia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
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Malay language
1.10 Derived From
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Malay and Dutch Languages
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?)
Apa kabar?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Malam yang baik
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Selamat Sore
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Aku cinta kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Indonesia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.006,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Bahasa Melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bahasa Indonesia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Bahasa Indonesia
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Indonesian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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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Not Available
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
Agglutinative