1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
2.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
2.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
2.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Yoruba Academy
2.9 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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
2.10 Similar To
Not Available
Owo and Itsekiri languages
2.11 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.3.3 How Many Consonants
3.7 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
3.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
3.9 Hard to Learn
3.9.1 Language Levels
3.9.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.3 Thank You
5.5 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Bawo ni o se wa
5.6 Good Night
5.8 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ka a ale
5.10 Good Afternoon
5.11 Good Morning
5.13 Please
5.15 Sorry
5.17 Bye
5.19 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
mo nifẹ rẹ
5.20 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
mo tọrọ gafara
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.2.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
7.1.1 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Benin, Togo
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00800,000.00
700
80000000
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Nigeria
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0010,000.00
1400
96000000
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
9.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
9.4.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
9.5.1 Native Name
9.5.2 Alternative Names
Not Available
Yariba, Yooba
9.5.3 French Name
9.5.4 German Name
Chinesisch
Yoruba-Sprache
9.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
9.7 Ethnicity
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
10.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Western Sudanic
10.2.2 Branch
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
10.3.2 Standard Forms
10.3.3 Language Position
10.3.5 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Yoruba Sign Language
10.4 Scope
11 Code
11.1 ISO 639 1
11.2 ISO 639 2
11.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
11.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
11.3 ISO 639 3
11.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
11.5 Glottocode
11.6 Linguasphere
11.7 Types of Language
11.7.1 Language Type
11.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
11.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating