Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
249
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2318
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Tere
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
aitäh
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Head ööd
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Tere päevast
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Tere hommikust
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Palun
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Vabandust
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Head aega
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Tartu
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Idamurre
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
108
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Eesti keel
French Name
chinois
estonien
German Name
Chinesisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Han
Estonians
Origin
1250 BC
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Estonian
Language Position
122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
est
ISO 639 2/B
chi
est
ISO 639 3
zho
est
ISO 639 6
zho
est
Glottocode
sini1245
esto1258
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative