Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
56
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
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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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Hallo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
dankjewel
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
goedemorgen
Please
请 (Qǐng)
alsjeblieft
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
sorry
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
vaarwel
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
pardon
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Gronings
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Limburgian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
107
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million22.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
chinois
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Chinesisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Han
Dutch people
Origin
1250 BC
AD 450-500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Dutch
Language Position
148
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
nld
ISO 639 2/B
chi
dut
ISO 639 3
zho
nld
ISO 639 6
zho
nld
Glottocode
sini1245
mode1257
Linguasphere
79-AAA
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic