1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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.
1.9 Similar To
French Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Cómo estás?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Buenas Noches
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Bonne soirée
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mexico
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Cuba
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,900,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
489.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
410.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
89.50 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
espagnol; castillan
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European 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
Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating