1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
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, Latin, Osmanya
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
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Standard Somali
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
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
Afro-Asiatic 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))
Somali 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
Not Available