Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2411
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2341
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
nomoskaar
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
subha abeli
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
suprobhaat
Please
请 (Qǐng)
anugroha kori
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
biḍai
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Assam
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
chinois
assamais
German Name
Chinesisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Han
Assamese people
Origin
1250 BC
7th century A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Assamese
Language Position
165
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
asm
ISO 639 2/B
chi
asm
ISO 639 3
zho
asm
ISO 639 6
zho
asm
Glottocode
sini1245
assa1263
Linguasphere
79-AAA
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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