1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Somalia
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Somali Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Nagayattii buli
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Akkam waarite
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Sin jaaladha
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Kenya
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
66,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kenya
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
13,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
24.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Afaan Oromo
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating