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Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

Total No. Of Countries
5 10

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
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Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
24 19

How Many Consonants
23 13

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 19

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 1

Dialect 2
Wu

Where They Speak
China, United States of America

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00 6

Dialect 3
Yue

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00 12

Total No. Of Dialects
10 10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million 2

Speaking Population
16.00 % 2

Native Speakers
873.00 million 1

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million 3

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
1 1

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

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
zh

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

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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.

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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.

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