Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
57
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
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
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Turkish
Derived From
-
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
249
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2323
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Salam
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
necəsən
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
请 (Qǐng)
lütfən
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
üzr
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
xudafiz
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Derbent
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Russia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Gazakh
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Baku
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1033
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
chinois
azéri
German Name
Chinesisch
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Han
Azerbaijani
Origin
1250 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Azerbaijani
Language Position
138
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
aze
ISO 639 2/B
chi
aze
ISO 639 3
zho
aze
ISO 639 6
zho
aze
Glottocode
sini1245
azer1255
Linguasphere
79-AAA
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative