Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
France, Spain
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
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
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Kaixo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Gabon
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Egun on
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Mesedez
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Barkatu
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Agur
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
France
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Souletin
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Biscayan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Spain
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
chinois
basque
German Name
Chinesisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Han
Basque people
Origin
1250 BC
c. 1000
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Basque
Language Position
130
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
zh
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
eus
ISO 639 2/B
chi
baq
ISO 639 3
zho
eus
ISO 639 6
zho
eus
Glottocode
sini1245
basq1248
Linguasphere
79-AAA
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative