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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
546
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Spain
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
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.
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
French Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2627
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
245
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2322
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
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
66
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
hola
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Gracias
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Cómo estás?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Buenas Noches
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Bonne soirée
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Buenas Tardes
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Buenos Días
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
Por Favor
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
triste
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
adiós
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Te Quiero
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Discúlpeme
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Mexican Spanish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Mexico
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00105,000,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Cuban Spanish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Cuba
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0011,000,000.00
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Puerto Rican Spanish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Puerto Rico
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,900,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
1021
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million489.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %6.15 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million410.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million89.50 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Español
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Castellano, Castilian, Español
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
espagnol; castillan
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Spanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
210 BC
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Romance
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
6.3.3 Language Position
12
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Spanish
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
es
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
spa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
spa
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
spa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
stan1288
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
51-AAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Chinese vs Spanish Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Chinese vs Spanish speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Chinese or Spanish language.

  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.
  • Spanish is spoken as a national language in: Spain.

You will also get to know the continents where Chinese and Spanish speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Chinese language is 1 and position of Spanish language is 2. Find all the information about these languages on Chinese and Spanish.

Chinese and Spanish Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Spanish language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Spanish language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Spanish Language History.

Chinese and Spanish Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Spanish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Spanish language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Spanish word for "Thank You" is Gracias. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Spanish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Spanish Difficulty

The Chinese vs Spanish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Spanish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Spanish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Spanish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Spanish time required is 24 weeks.