Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
59
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Austria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
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
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
bok
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
hvala
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kako si
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
laku noć
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dobar dan
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
dobro jutro
Please
请 (Qǐng)
molim
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Oprostite
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Doviđenja
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Volim te
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Chakavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Croatia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Chakavian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Croatia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1079
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Hrvatski
French Name
chinois
croate
German Name
Chinesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Han
Croats
Origin
1250 BC
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
chi
hrv
ISO 639 3
zho
hrv
ISO 639 6
zho
hrv
Glottocode
sini1245
croa1245
Linguasphere
79-AAA
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic