Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
National Language
China, Taiwan
Turkey
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Not Available
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Merhaba
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
günaydın
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Dialect 2
Wu
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Not Available
Anatolian, Türkisch
German Name
Chinesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
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Turkic
Branch
Not Available
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
nucl1301
Linguasphere
79-AAA
44-AAB-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic
Chinese and Turkish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Turkish language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Turkish Difficulty
The Chinese vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Turkish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.