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Chinese and Portuguese

Countries

Countries

China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

510
0 46
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National Language

China, Taiwan
Portugal

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

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.
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.

Similar To

Japanese and Korean Languages
Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2623
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

249
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2319
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好 (Nín hǎo)
Olá

Thank You

谢谢 (Xièxiè)
obrigado

How Are You?

你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Como você está?

Good Night

晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
boa noite

Good Evening

晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
boa Noite

Good Afternoon

下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
boa Tarde

Good Morning

早安 (Zǎo ān)
bom Dia

Please

请 (Qǐng)
Por Favor

Sorry

遗憾 (Yíhàn)
pesaroso

Bye

再见 (Zàijiàn)
tchau

I Love You

我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Eu te amo

Excuse Me

劳驾 (Láojià)
desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mandarin
Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Brazil

How Many People Speak

960,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Wu
European Portuguese

Where They Speak

China, United States of America
Portugal

How Many People Speak

80,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Yue
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

60,000,000.004,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1026
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,051.00 million231.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %3.27 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

873.00 million216.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

178.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

中文 (zhōngwén)
Português

Alternative Names

Zhongwen, Hanyu
Português

French Name

chinois
portugais

German Name

Chinesisch
Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Han
Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

1250 BC
3rd Century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Standard Chinese
Portuguese

Language Position

16
1 120
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Signed Forms

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

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

zh
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zho
por

ISO 639 2/B

chi
por

ISO 639 3

zho
por

ISO 639 6

zho
por

Glottocode

sini1245
port1283

Linguasphere

79-AAA
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Portuguese Alphabets

Chinese and Portuguese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Portuguese. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Chinese and Portuguese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Portuguese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chinese and Portuguese 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 Portuguese dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Portuguese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Portuguese Dialects are spoken in different Portuguese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Portuguese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese , European Portuguese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chinese and Portuguese Speaking population

Chinese and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Chinese vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Portuguese Language Codes

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