Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
China, Taiwan
Germany
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
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Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Danke
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
guten Tag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
guten Morgen
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Verzeihung
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Swiss German
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Wu
Swabian German
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Germany
Dialect 3
Yue
Texas German
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Texas
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
chinois
allemand
German Name
Chinesisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Origin
1250 BC
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sini1245
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
79-AAA
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Chinese and German Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and German language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs German Difficulty
The Chinese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and German Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.