1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?)
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
boa Noite
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Daman and Diu
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Portuguese
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available