1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
1.3 Dialect 2
1.3.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Olonets
1.3.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
1.4 Dialect 3
1.4.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Novgorod
1.4.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
1.13 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Russian
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Russian
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic