1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Ireland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Ireland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Foras na Gaeilge
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
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
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
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Go raibh maith agat
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Conas atá tú ?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Tráthnóna maith duit
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Tráthnóna maith duit
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dia dhuit ar maidin
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Is breá liom thú
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Gabh mo leithscéal
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Connacht
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
Munster
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Ulster
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 million1.79 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million0.14 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million1.65 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
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
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Irish 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
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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
Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional