1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy 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
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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?)
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Merina
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Sakalava
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Fiteny Malagasy
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Austronesian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
standard Malagasy
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
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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