Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Malaysia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Thailand
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2324
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Hai
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
terima kasih
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Selamat pagi
Please
请 (Qǐng)
sila
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
maaf
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Pekal
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Musi
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1024
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million77.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
chinois
malais
German Name
Chinesisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Han
Malaysian people
Origin
1250 BC
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
154
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
msa
ISO 639 2/B
chi
may
ISO 639 3
zho
zsm
ISO 639 6
zho
may
Glottocode
sini1245
stan1306
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative