1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
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Farsi Language
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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, 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
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Eastern Iraq
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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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
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
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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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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