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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
54
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.4 National Language
China, Taiwan
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.5 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.6 Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
1.7 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.8 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
1.9 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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.10 Similar To
Not Available
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.11 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2630
Irish
18 247
1.3 Phonology
1.3.1 How Many Vowels
245
Hebrew
0 32
2.2.1 How Many Consonants
2325
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
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
65
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Здраво (Zdravo)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
Молим (Molim)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Prizren-Timok
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.3 Dialect 2
Wu
Smederevo–Vršac
4.4.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Serbia
4.5.1 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.6 Dialect 3
Yue
Torlakian
4.6.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.6.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,500,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.7 Total No. Of Dialects
103
Sanskrit
0 188
7 How Many People Speak
7.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million8.70 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
7.4 Speaking Population
16.00 %NA
Xhosa
0.11 89
8.2 Native Speakers
873.00 million8.70 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
8.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
Finnish
0.01 400
8.4.1 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
8.4.2 Alternative Names
Not Available
Montenegrin
8.4.3 French Name
chinois
serbe
8.4.4 German Name
Chinesisch
Serbisch
8.5 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
8.6 Ethnicity
Han
Serbs
9 History
9.1 Origin
1250 BC
11th Century
9.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
9.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
9.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
9.3 Language Forms
9.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
9.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Serbian
9.3.3 Language Position
144
Persian
1 120
10.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
10.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
11 Code
11.1 ISO 639 1
zh
sr
11.2 ISO 639 2
11.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
srp
11.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
srp
11.3 ISO 639 3
zho
srp
11.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
11.5 Glottocode
sini1245
serb1264
11.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-g
11.7 Types of Language
11.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
11.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
11.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available