Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2624
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
247
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2317
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Greece
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Griko
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Italy
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Mariupol
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1025
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
chinois
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Chinesisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Han
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1250 BC
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Greek
Language Position
174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
ell
ISO 639 2/B
chi
gre
ISO 639 3
zho
ell
ISO 639 6
zho
ells
Glottocode
sini1245
gree1276
Linguasphere
79-AAA
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic