Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
günaydın
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
chinois
  
turc
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic