Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Ethiopia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Somalia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2634
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2410
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
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
akkam
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Maaloo
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
naa dhiisi
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Borana
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Orma
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Kenya
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Wata
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kenya
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1017
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
chinois
galla
German Name
Chinesisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Han
Oromos
Origin
1250 BC
16
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Cushitic
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
191
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
orm
ISO 639 2/B
chi
orm
ISO 639 3
zho
orm
ISO 639 6
zho
orm
Glottocode
sini1245
nucl1736
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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