1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
New Zealand
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
New Zealand
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
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Tahitian Language
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
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)
Mauruuru koutou
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
E pēhea ana koe ?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
pai ahiahi
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Afternoon pai
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
South Island Māori
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
New Zealand
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Western North Island Maori
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
New Zealand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Eastern North Island Maori
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
New Zealand
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 million0.18 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million0.18 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
te Reo Māori
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
New Zealand Maori
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
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
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))
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available