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Chinese and Esperanto


Countries

Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
5   
10

National Language
East Asia, European Union   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

Interesting Facts
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
  • 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
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32   
14
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
24   
19

How Many Consonants
27   
17
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks   
3
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Halo   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
Dankon   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
Bonan nokton   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
Bonan vesperon   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
Bonan matenon   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
Mi petas   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
Ĝis poste   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Mi amas vin   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Pardonu!   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Not present   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

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

Dialect 2
Not present   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Not present   
China, United States of America   

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

Dialect 3
Not present   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Not present   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
0   
10   
10

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
0.20 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million   
34
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
Esperanto   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia   
Not Available   

French Name
espéranto   
chinois   

German Name
Esperanto   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Han   

History

Origin
1887   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Esperanto   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
Not Available   
1   
1

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

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
eo   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
epo   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
epo   
chi   

ISO 639 3
epo   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
espe1235   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
51-AAB-da   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Constructed   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Analytic, Isolating   

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All Esperanto and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Esperanto and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Esperanto and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Esperanto are spoken in different Esperanto Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Esperanto vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Esperanto and Chinese Speaking population

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Esperanto and Chinese Language Codes

Esperanto and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Esperanto and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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