Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
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Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
chinois
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Chinese and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Abkhaz language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Chinese vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.