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Minority Language

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Interesting Facts

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Derived From

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How Many Vowels

How Many Consonants

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Language Levels

Time Taken to Learn

Greetings

Hello

Thank You

How Are You?

Good Night

Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Please

Sorry

Bye

I Love You

Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

Dialect 2

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

Dialect 3

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

Total No. Of Dialects

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

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ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2/T

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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
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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
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
South Africa
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  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Latin
 
English-Alphabets.jpg#200
26
5
21
Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
7
6 weeks
 
Hello
Thank you
How are you?
Good Night
Good Evening
Good Afternoon
Good Morning
Please
Sorry
Bye
I love you
Excuse Me
 
American English
United States of America
225,000,000.00
Hiberno-English
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4,500,000.00
Welsh English
United Kingdom
2,500,000.00
188
 
1,200.00 million
5.43 %
400.00 million
400.00 million
English
English
anglais
Englisch
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
English people
 
5th Century AD
Indo-European Family
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-
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Standard English
3
Signed English
Individual
 
en
eng
eng
eng
engs
stan1293
52-ABA
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
 
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
5
China, Taiwan
Republic of Brazil
Asia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  • 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.
Japanese and Korean Languages
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26
24
23
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
6
88 weeks
 
您好 (Nín hǎo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
请 (Qǐng)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
 
Mandarin
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
960,000,000.00
Wu
China, United States of America
80,000,000.00
Yue
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
60,000,000.00
10
 
1,051.00 million
16.00 %
873.00 million
178.00 million
中文 (zhōngwén)
Zhongwen, Hanyu
chinois
Chinesisch
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Han
 
1250 BC
Sino-Tibetan Family
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-
No early forms
Standard Chinese
1
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Individual
 
zh
zho
chi
zho
zho
sini1245
79-AAA
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Analytic, Isolating

English vs Chinese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare English vs Chinese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak English or Chinese language.

  • English is spoken as a national language in: .
  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: .

You will also get to know the continents where English and Chinese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of English language is and position of Chinese language is . Find all the information about these languages on English and Chinese.

English and Chinese Language History

Comparison of English vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of English and Chinese language. History of English language states that this language originated in whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in . Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on English vs Chinese.

English and Chinese 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 English and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Chinese language. English word for "Hello" is or Chinese word for "Thank You" is . Find more of such common English Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

English vs Chinese Difficulty

The English vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of English Alphabets and Chinese 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 English and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is while to learn Chinese time required is .