1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
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 khabar?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Selamat tengah hari
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)
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Indonesia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0030,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Indonesia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Bahasa melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
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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Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Malaysian 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
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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative