1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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1.8 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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
zoo tav su
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
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3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Kuv hlub koj
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
zam txim rau kuv
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Laos
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,600,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million4.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million3.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Hmong–Mien Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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