Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Taiwan
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia
Minority Language
South Africa
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Thank you
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
How are you?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
I Love You
I love you
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
American English
Mandarin
Where They Speak
United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Wu
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Yue
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
English
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
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French Name
anglais
chinois
German Name
Englisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
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Ethnicity
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Han
Origin
5th Century AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed English
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
engs
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Glottocode
stan1293
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ABA
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
English 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 English and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Chinese language. English word for "Hello" is Hello or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common English Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
English vs Chinese Difficulty
The English vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of English 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 English and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.