Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
511
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Turkey
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
248
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
👆🏻
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)
Merhaba
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
günaydın
Please
请 (Qǐng)
lütfen
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
üzgünüm
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Gagauz
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
109
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
chinois
turc
German Name
Chinesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Han
Turkish
Origin
1250 BC
c. 1350
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
119
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
tur
ISO 639 2/B
chi
tur
ISO 639 3
zho
tur
ISO 639 6
zho
tur
Glottocode
sini1245
nucl1301
Linguasphere
79-AAA
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic