Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France, Spain
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kaixo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Gabon
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Egun on
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Mesedez
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Barkatu
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Agur
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
France
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
68,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Wu
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
8,700.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Yue
Where They Speak
Spain
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
750,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
basque
chinois
German Name
Baskisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Han
Origin
c. 1000
1250 BC
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Basque
Standard Chinese
Language Position
301
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
eu
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
zho
ISO 639 2/B
baq
chi
ISO 639 3
eus
zho
ISO 639 6
eus
zho
Glottocode
basq1248
sini1245
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating