About Chinese Language | Chinese | Alphabets in Chinese

Countries

China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

China, Taiwan

Second Language

Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Indonesia, Malaysia

Regulated By

Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council

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.

Similar To

Japanese and Korean Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 8 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 19 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 13 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

您好 (Nín hǎo)

Thank You

谢谢 (Xièxiè)

How Are You?

你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)

Good Night

晚安 (Wǎn'ān)

Good Evening

晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)

Good Afternoon

下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)

Good Morning

早安 (Zǎo ān)

Please

请 (Qǐng)

Sorry

遗憾 (Yíhàn)

Bye

再见 (Zàijiàn)

I Love You

我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)

Excuse Me

劳驾 (Láojià)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mandarin

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

How Many People Speak

960,000,000.00

Rank: 1 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Where They Speak

China, United States of America

How Many People Speak

80,000,000.00

Rank: 6 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Yue

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam

How Many People Speak

60,000,000.00

Rank: 12 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,051.00 million

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

16.00 %

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

873.00 million

Rank: 1 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

178.00 million

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

中文 (zhōngwén)

Alternative Names

Zhongwen, Hanyu

French Name

chinois

German Name

Chinesisch

Pronunciation

[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]

Ethnicity

Han

History

Origin

1250 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Chinese

Language Position

Rank: 1 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zho

ISO 639 2/B

chi

ISO 639 3

zho

ISO 639 6

zho

Glottocode

sini1245

Linguasphere

79-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Chinese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Chinese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Chinese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Chinese. Chinese phonology gives Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. There are 24 vowels and 23 consonants in Chinese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Chinese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Chinese language is given in detail in this section.

All Chinese countries

Want to explore all Chinese countries? About Chinese language serves you with all Chinese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Chinese as official language are called as Chinese countries.

Countries that use Chinese as their National Language are: China, Taiwan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Chinese as second language are: Republic of Brazil.

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Learn Chinese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Chinese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Chinese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Chinese language.Learn Chinese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: 您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank you: 谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Good Morning: 早安 (Zǎo ān)
Good Evening: 晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon: 下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)

All Chinese Language Codes

Get to know all Chinese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Chinese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.