Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Taiwan
Ghana
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Akan Orthography Committee
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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2621
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2410
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2316
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
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
ete-sen
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
meda ase
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
maadwo
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
maadwo
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
maaha
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
maakye
Please
请 (Qǐng)
wae
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Kafra
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
bye
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Asante
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Ghana
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Akuapem
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Ghana
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Fante
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Ghana
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Akan
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Twi, Fante
French Name
chinois
akan
German Name
Chinesisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Han
Akan people
Origin
1250 BC
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Akan
Language Position
1104
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
aka
ISO 639 2/B
chi
aka
ISO 639 3
zho
aka
ISO 639 6
zho
aka
Glottocode
sini1245
akan1251
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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