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Countries

Countries

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

Total No. Of Countries

335
0 46
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National Language

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, Taiwan

Second Language

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia

Minority Language

South Africa
Indonesia, Malaysia

Regulated By

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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council

Interesting Facts

  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  • 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.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

524
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

76
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)

Thank You

Thank you
谢谢 (Xièxiè)

How Are You?

How are you?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)

Good Night

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)

Good Evening

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)

Good Morning

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)

Please

Please
请 (Qǐng)

Sorry

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)

Bye

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)

I Love You

I love you
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)

Excuse Me

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)

Dialects

Dialect 1

American English
Mandarin

Where They Speak

United States of America
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

How Many People Speak

225,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hiberno-English
Wu

Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
China, United States of America

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Welsh English
Yue

Where They Speak

United Kingdom
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

18810
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million1,051.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

5.43 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

400.00 million873.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

400.00 million178.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

English
中文 (zhōngwén)

Alternative Names

English
Zhongwen, Hanyu

French Name

anglais
chinois

German Name

Englisch
Chinesisch

Pronunciation

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]

Ethnicity

English people
Han

History

Origin

5th Century AD
1250 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard English
Standard Chinese

Language Position

31
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed English
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

en
zh

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eng
zho

ISO 639 2/B

eng
chi

ISO 639 3

eng
zho

ISO 639 6

engs
zho

Glottocode

stan1293
sini1245

Linguasphere

52-ABA
79-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

English and Chinese Alphabets

English and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in English and Chinese. In English Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn English and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of English and Chinese languages. The English phonology consist English vowels and English consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at English greetings vs Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether English and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All English and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all English and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of English and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of English are spoken in different English Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking English vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the English dialects include: American English, Hiberno-English. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

English and Chinese Speaking population

English and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which English and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of English and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak English and Chinese on English vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

English and Chinese Language Codes

English and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. English and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.