1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
West Java
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
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
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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.
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
1.9 Similar To
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Madurese and Malay Languages
1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.2 Phonology
1.2.1 How Many Vowels
1.2.2 How Many Consonants
1.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin, Sundanese
1.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.6 Hard to Learn
1.6.1 Language Levels
1.7.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
2.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kumaha kabarna?
2.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Wilujeng kulem
2.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Wilujeng wengi
2.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Wilujeng siang
2.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Wilujeng énjing
2.10 Please
2.11 Sorry
2.12 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Wilujeng angkat
2.13 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
2.14 Excuse Me
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Banten
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
3.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bogor
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bandung
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million39.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
4.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
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4.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Priangan, Sunda
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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4.5 Ethnicity
Han
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
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5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Sundanese
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
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6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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