Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
54
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2646
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2415
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2338
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Ahoj
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dobré ráno
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Prosím
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Pardón!
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Dovidenia
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
chinois
slovaque
German Name
Chinesisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Han
Slovaks
Origin
1250 BC
6th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Slovak
Language Position
127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
slk
ISO 639 2/B
chi
slo
ISO 639 3
zho
slk
ISO 639 6
zho
slk
Glottocode
sini1245
slov1269
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic