Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
chinois
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Analytic