Countries
Burkina Faso
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1623
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Laafi bala
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
gafare
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
gafare
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Wu
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Yue
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
moré
chinois
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Han
Origin
11th Century AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Chinese
Language Position
371
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mos
chi
ISO 639 3
mos
zho
ISO 639 6
mos
zho
Glottocode
moss1236
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating