Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Czech Republic
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Institute of the Czech 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.
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2642
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2432
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2332
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
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
ahoj
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
děkuji
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
dobré ráno
Please
请 (Qǐng)
prosím
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
litovat
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
sbohem
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
promiňte
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Chod
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Lach
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Moravian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1013
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
chinois
tchèque
German Name
Chinesisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Han
Czechs
Origin
1250 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Czech
Language Position
173
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
ces
ISO 639 2/B
chi
cze
ISO 639 3
zho
ces
ISO 639 6
zho
ces
Glottocode
sini1245
czec1258
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic