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Countries

Countries

China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

57
0 46
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National Language

China, Taiwan
Germany

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Indonesia, Malaysia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Japanese and Korean Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2410
0 32
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How Many Consonants

239
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好 (Nín hǎo)
hallo

Thank You

谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Danke

How Are You?

你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
gute Nacht

Good Evening

晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
guten Tag

Good Morning

早安 (Zǎo ān)
guten Morgen

Please

请 (Qǐng)
bitte

Sorry

遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Verzeihung

Bye

再见 (Zàijiàn)
Tschüs

I Love You

我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

劳驾 (Láojià)
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mandarin
Swiss German

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

960,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Wu
Swabian German

Where They Speak

China, United States of America
Germany

How Many People Speak

80,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Yue
Texas German

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Texas

How Many People Speak

60,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1028
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,051.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

873.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

178.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

中文 (zhōngwén)
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Zhongwen, Hanyu
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

chinois
allemand

German Name

Chinesisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Han
Germans

History

Origin

1250 BC
6th Century AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Chinese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

19
1 120
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Signed Forms

Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zh
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zho
deu

ISO 639 2/B

chi
ger

ISO 639 3

zho
deu

ISO 639 6

zho
deus

Glottocode

sini1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

79-AAA
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Chinese and German Alphabets

Chinese and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and German. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Chinese and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and German languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chinese and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chinese and German dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chinese and German Speaking population

Chinese and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and German languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and German on Chinese vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and German Language Codes

Chinese and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.