1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Burma
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.5 National Language
Burundi, Gambia
China, Taiwan
2.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
2.7 Speaking Continents
2.8 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
2.9 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
2.10 Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- 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.
2.11 Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Not Available
2.12 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.6.2 How Many Consonants
5.2 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
5.3 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
5.4 Hard to Learn
5.4.1 Language Levels
5.6.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Urakomeye?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
Mwiriwe
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
Not available
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
6.12 Excuse Me
Not available
劳驾 (Láojià)
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
Tanzania
China, United States of America
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
990,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
8.2 Dialect 3
8.2.1 Where They Speak
Tanzania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
8.2.2 How Many People Speak
153,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
8.4 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
8.80 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
10.4 Native Speakers
8.80 million873.00 million
0.13
873
11.7.4 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
11.7.5 Native Name
11.7.6 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
11.7.7 French Name
11.7.8 German Name
11.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
11.9 Ethnicity
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
12.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating