Countries
Wales
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Wales
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
British Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
724
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Diolch
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Nos da
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Bore da
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Hwyl
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Argentina
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
38,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Wu
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
700,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Yue
Where They Speak
Powys
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
700,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.70 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
gallois
chinois
German Name
Kymrisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Han
Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Brythonic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms
Standard Forms
Welsh
Standard Chinese
Language Position
311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
zho
ISO 639 2/B
wel
chi
ISO 639 3
cym
zho
ISO 639 6
cym
zho
Glottocode
wels1247
sini1245
Linguasphere
50-ABA
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating