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Esperanto vs Chinese


Chinese vs 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
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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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Esperanto and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Esperanto vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Esperanto and Chinese language. History of Esperanto language states that this language originated in 1887 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 Esperanto and Chinese Language History.

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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.

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