Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
سلام
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
متاسف
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
chinois
  
persan
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Persian people
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic