Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
245
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2330
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
chinois
tibétain
German Name
Chinesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Han
tibetan people
Origin
1250 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
zh
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
bod
ISO 639 2/B
chi
tib
ISO 639 3
zho
bod
ISO 639 6
zho
bod
Glottocode
sini1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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