Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
54
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2325
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
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)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Serbia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Torlakian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Montenegrin
French Name
chinois
serbe
German Name
Chinesisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Han
Serbs
Origin
1250 BC
11th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Serbian
Language Position
144
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
srp
ISO 639 2/B
chi
srp
ISO 639 3
zho
srp
ISO 639 6
zho
srp
Glottocode
sini1245
serb1264
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-g
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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