Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2325
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Zdravo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kako si?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Laku noc
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Dobar dan
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dobro jutro
Please
请 (Qǐng)
molim vas
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Oprostite
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Zbogom
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Volim te
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Chakavian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Croatia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Croatia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million3.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
chinois
bosniaque
German Name
Chinesisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Han
Bosniaks
Origin
1250 BC
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Bosnian
Language Position
124
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
bos
ISO 639 2/B
chi
bos
ISO 639 3
zho
bos
ISO 639 6
zho
boss
Glottocode
sini1245
bosn1245
Linguasphere
79-AAA
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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