1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Hangul
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China, North Korea
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 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million77.00 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
Not Available
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Korean Sign Language
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative