Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
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 in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
Origin
1887
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Esperanto and Chinese language. Esperanto word for "Hello" is Halo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Esperanto Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Esperanto vs Chinese Difficulty
The Esperanto vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.