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
  
National Language
Spain
  
China, Taiwan
  
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
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
triste
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
adiós
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Español
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Not Available
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
chinois
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Han
  
Origin
210 BC
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating