Countries
European Union, Slovenia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2023
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Hvala
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Lahko noč
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Dober večer
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Prosim
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Nasvidenje
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ljubim te
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Oprostite
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
80,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Resian
Wu
Where They Speak
Italy
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Styrian
Yue
Where They Speak
Slovenia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Slovenščina
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
slovène
chinois
German Name
Slowenisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Han
Origin
972-1093
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovene
Standard Chinese
Language Position
281
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
zho
ISO 639 2/B
slv
chi
ISO 639 3
slv
zho
ISO 639 6
slv
zho
Glottocode
slov1268
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating