Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
56
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2631
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
247
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2320
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
alo
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
multumesc
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
buna Ziua
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
bună Dimineața
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Vă Rog
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
scuze
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
La revedere
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Aromanian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Croatia
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Română
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
chinois
roumain; moldave
German Name
Chinesisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Han
Romanians
Origin
1250 BC
1521
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Romanian
Language Position
136
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
ron
ISO 639 2/B
chi
rum
ISO 639 3
zho
ron
ISO 639 6
zho
ron
Glottocode
sini1245
roma1327
Linguasphere
79-AAA
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic