Countries
Wales
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Wales
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
- 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
English Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
British Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Welsh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Helô
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Diolch
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Nos da
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Bore da
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Hwyl
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Argentina
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Powys
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
  
Not Available
  
French Name
gallois
  
chinois
  
German Name
Kymrisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Welsh people
  
Han
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Celtic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Brythonic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Welsh
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
cy
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
cym
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
wel
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
cym
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
wels1247
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
50-ABA
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Welsh 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 Welsh and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Welsh and Chinese language. Welsh word for "Hello" is Helô or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Welsh Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Welsh vs Chinese Difficulty
The Welsh vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Welsh 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 Welsh and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Welsh and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Welsh is 30 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.