1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Turkey, Uzbekistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
1.9 Similar To
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Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
1.10 Derived From
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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, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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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
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Qalay siz?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Hayirli kech
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Hayirli kun
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Sizni sevaman
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Iltimos! Menga qarang
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Not Available
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million26.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
9th–12th centuries AD
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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Southestern(Chagatai)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 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))
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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
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available