Countries
Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
54
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Russia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2410
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
извините(izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Olonets
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Olonets
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1013
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Русский
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Russki
French Name
chinois
russe
German Name
Chinesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Han
Russians
History
Origin
1250 BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Russian
Language Position
17
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
zh
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
rus
ISO 639 2/B
chi
rus
ISO 639 3
zho
rus
ISO 639 6
zho
rus
Glottocode
sini1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic