Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Abkhazia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2662
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
242
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2360
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
амритана
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Амарахь
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
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Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Bzyb
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Sadz
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Turkey
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
chinois
abkhaze
German Name
Chinesisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Han
Abkhaz people
Origin
1250 BC
c. 1650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Abkhaz
Language Position
128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
abk
ISO 639 2/B
chi
abk
ISO 639 3
zho
abk
ISO 639 6
zho
abks
Glottocode
sini1245
abkh1244
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative