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Chinese vs Czech


Countries

Countries
Czech Republic, European Union  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

National Language
Czech Republic  
China, Taiwan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia  
Indonesia, Malaysia  

Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  

Interesting Facts
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
42  
22
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32  
21
24  
19

How Many Consonants
32  
22
23  
13

Scripts
Latin  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
ahoj  
您好 (Nín hǎo)  

Thank You
děkuji  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  

How Are You?
Jak se máš?  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  

Good Night
dobrou noc  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  

Good Evening
dobrý večer  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  

Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  

Good Morning
dobré ráno  
早安 (Zǎo ān)  

Please
prosím  
请 (Qǐng)  

Sorry
litovat  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  

Bye
sbohem  
再见 (Zàijiàn)  

I Love You
Miluji tě  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  

Excuse Me
promiňte  
劳驾 (Láojià)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chod  
Mandarin  

Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
960,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 2
Lach  
Wu  

Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia  
China, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
80,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 3
Moravian  
Yue  

Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
108,000.00  
27
60,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million  
99+
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
0.15 %  
99+
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
873.00 million  
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
178.00 million  
3

Native Name
čeština / český jazyk  
中文 (zhōngwén)  

Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina  
Not Available  

French Name
tchèque  
chinois  

German Name
Tschechisch  
Chinesisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Czechs  
Han  

History

Origin
9th Century  
1250 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Czech  
Standard Chinese  

Language Position
73  
99+
1  
1

Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
cs  
zh  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ces  
zho  

ISO 639 2/B
cze  
chi  

ISO 639 3
ces  
zho  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
czec1258  
sini1245  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-da  
79-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Czech and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Czech vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Czech and Chinese language. History of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 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 Czech and Chinese Language History.

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Czech and Chinese 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 Czech and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Czech and Chinese language. Czech word for "Hello" is ahoj or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Czech Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Czech vs Chinese Difficulty

The Czech vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech Alphabets and Chinese 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 Czech and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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