Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Poland
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
249
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2323
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
cześć
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
dziękuję
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
dobranoc
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dzień dobry
Please
请 (Qǐng)
proszę
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Przepraszam
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
do widzenia
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kashubian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Poland
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Masovian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Poland
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Silesian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1034
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Polski
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
chinois
polonais
German Name
Chinesisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Han
Poles
Origin
1250 BC
1270
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Polish
Language Position
124
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
pol
ISO 639 2/B
chi
pol
ISO 639 3
zho
pol
ISO 639 6
zho
pols
Glottocode
sini1245
poli1260
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic