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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Japan
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
99
Rank: 40 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
14
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Kana
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
About Chinese L..
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Sanuki
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1,000,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Hakata
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Fukuoka
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Kansai
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
kansai
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
31
Rank: 25 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
128.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1.90 %
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
128.00 million
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
日本語
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
japonais
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Japanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
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/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
1185
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 1 (Overall)
8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
ja
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
jpn
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
jpn
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
jpn
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
nucl1643
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
45-CAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Chinese and Japanese Alphabets

Chinese and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Chinese and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Japanese languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chinese and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chinese and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chinese and Japanese Speaking population

Chinese and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Japanese on Chinese vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Japanese Language Codes

Chinese and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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