Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2323
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, 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)
سلام
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
متشکرم
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
صبح به خیر
Please
请 (Qǐng)
لطفا
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
متاسف
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Western Persian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
chinois
persan
German Name
Chinesisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Han
Persian people
Origin
1250 BC
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Persian
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
fas
ISO 639 2/B
chi
per
ISO 639 3
zho
pes
ISO 639 6
zho
pers
Glottocode
sini1245
fars1254
Linguasphere
79-AAA
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic