Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Taiwan
Nigeria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2636
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
248
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2328
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
kedụ
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
dalụ
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Biko
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Ndo
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Kachifo
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Enuani
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Ngwa
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
igbo
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Ibo
French Name
chinois
igbo
German Name
Chinesisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Han
Igbo people
Origin
1250 BC
30th Century BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Igbo
Language Position
157
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
chi
ibo
ISO 639 3
zho
ibo
ISO 639 6
zho
ibo
Glottocode
sini1245
nucl1417
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative