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Czech vs Chinese


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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