1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Japan
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
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
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Korean 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
Kana
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Fukuoka
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
kansai
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million128.00 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
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Japanese
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
Not Available
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic