Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Taiwan
Lithuania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Poland
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2412
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2320
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Sveiki
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Ačiū
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Labanakt
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Laba diena
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Labas rytas
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Prašom
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
atsiprašau
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Ate
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Samogitian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Curonian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
chinois
lituanien
German Name
Chinesisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Han
Lithuanians
Origin
1250 BC
c. 1503
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Lithuanian
Language Position
144
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
lit
ISO 639 2/B
chi
lit
ISO 639 3
zho
lit
ISO 639 6
zho
lit
Glottocode
sini1245
lith1251
Linguasphere
79-AAA
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic