Countries
United States of America
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
North America
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
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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
Apache Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3423
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
T'aa shoodi
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Nízhdził
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Hágoónee’
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Arizona
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
170,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Wu
Where They Speak
New Mexico
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
170,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Yue
Where They Speak
Utah
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
120,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Navaho
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
navaho
chinois
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Han
Origin
1500 CE
1250 BC
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Navajo
Standard Chinese
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nv
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
zho
ISO 639 2/B
nav
chi
ISO 639 3
nav
zho
ISO 639 6
nav
zho
Glottocode
nava1243
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating