Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
India
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
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Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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)
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
104.00 million
  
15
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bihari
  
French Name
chinois
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
12th Century CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional
  
Chinese and Urdu Speaking population
Chinese and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Urdu on Chinese vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Urdu Language Codes
Chinese and Urdu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Urdu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.