Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
South Africa
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2415
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2317
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
hallo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Dankie
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
goeie nag
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
goeie more
Please
请 (Qǐng)
asseblief
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
jammer
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Totsiens
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
-
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Namibia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cape Dutch
French Name
chinois
afrikaans
German Name
Chinesisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Han
Afrikaners
Origin
1250 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
123
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
afr
ISO 639 2/B
chi
afr
ISO 639 3
zho
afr
ISO 639 6
zho
afrs
Glottocode
sini1245
afri1274
Linguasphere
79-AAA
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic