Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2637
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2346
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Mhoro
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Masikati
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Mangwanani
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Ndineurombo
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
bye
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Hwesa
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Karanga
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Zezuru
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
chinois
shona
German Name
Chinesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Han
Shona people
Origin
1250 BC
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Shona
Language Position
1107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
sna
ISO 639 2/B
chi
sna
ISO 639 3
zho
sna
ISO 639 6
zho
sna
Glottocode
sini1245
core1255
Linguasphere
79-AAA
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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