Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
chinois
  
russe
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Russians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic