Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2631
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2326
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
жал (žal)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Torlakian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Debar
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Galičnik
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1028
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million2.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
chinois
macédonien
German Name
Chinesisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Han
Macedonians
Origin
1250 BC
2200 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Macedonian
Language Position
145
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
chi
mac
ISO 639 3
zho
mkd
ISO 639 6
zho
mkd
Glottocode
sini1245
mace1250
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic