1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Cambodia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, France, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Not Available
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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
Khmer
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
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Vietnam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cambodia, Thailand
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Kambodschanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Khmer
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating