Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2644
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2417
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2327
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Hach ch'i
Please
请 (Qǐng)
مهربانی کر
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Poguli
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Rambani
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
India
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million5.42 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
chinois
kashmiri
German Name
Chinesisch
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Han
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
1250 BC
12th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Kashmiri
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
kas
ISO 639 2/B
chi
kas
ISO 639 3
zho
kas
ISO 639 6
zho
kas
Glottocode
sini1245
kash1277
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
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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