1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
2.5 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
South Africa
2.6 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
2.7 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
France, Germany, Indonesia
2.8 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
2.10 Similar To
Not Available
German and English 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
3.4.2 How Many Consonants
3.5 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
3.6 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.7 Hard to Learn
3.7.1 Language Levels
3.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
hoe gaat het met je?
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
goedenavond
4.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
goedemiddag
4.7 Good Morning
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ik hou van jou
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Netherlands
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
5.2 Dialect 2
5.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
5.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
5.3 Dialect 3
5.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Belgium, Netherlands
5.5.1 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
5.6 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
10.2 Speaking Population
11.4 Native Speakers
873.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
11.5.2 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
12.3.4 Native Name
12.3.5 Alternative Names
Not Available
Hollands, Nederlands
12.3.6 French Name
chinois
néerlandais; flamand
12.3.7 German Name
Chinesisch
Niederländisch
12.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
12.5 Ethnicity
13 History
13.1 Origin
13.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
13.2.1 Subgroup
13.2.2 Branch
13.3 Language Forms
13.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
13.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Dutch
13.3.3 Language Position
14.7.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
14.8 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
15.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic