Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Wales
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Welsh Language Commissioner
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.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
English Language
Derived From
-
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
247
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Helô
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Diolch
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Nos da
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
P'nawn da
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Bore da
Please
请 (Qǐng)
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Hwyl
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Argentina
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Powys
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
108
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million7.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cymraeg
French Name
chinois
gallois
German Name
Chinesisch
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Han
Welsh people
Origin
1250 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Celtic
Branch
-
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Welsh
Language Position
131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
cym
ISO 639 2/B
chi
wel
ISO 639 3
zho
cym
ISO 639 6
zho
cym
Glottocode
sini1245
wels1247
Linguasphere
79-AAA
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional