Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
grazie
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Come stai?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
buonanotte
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
buonasera
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
buongiorno
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Per Favore
请 (Qǐng)
Bye
arrivederci
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ti amo
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Scusami
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Romanesco
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Lazio
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
Central Italian
Wu
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
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Native Name
Italiano
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Italiano
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French Name
italien
chinois
German Name
Italienisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
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Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Italian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
itas
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Glottocode
ital1282
sini1245
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Italian 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 Italian and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Chinese language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Italian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Italian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian 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 Italian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.