Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Ethiopia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
247
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2331
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Selam
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
请 (Qǐng)
i'bakwon
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
aznallehu
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
tschao
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Gondar
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Gondar
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Gojjami
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Showa
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
105
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
chinois
amharique
German Name
Chinesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Han
Amharas
Origin
1250 BC
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Amharic
Language Position
155
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
amh
ISO 639 2/B
chi
amh
ISO 639 3
zho
amh
ISO 639 6
zho
amh
Glottocode
sini1245
amha1245
Linguasphere
79-AAA
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional