Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2623
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2314
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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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)
Kumno
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Khublei
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
thia sukh
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
khublei
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Sngewbha
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Map
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
khublei
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
map a nga
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Bhoi
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
-
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Nonglung
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
105
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
chinois
khasi
German Name
Chinesisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Han
Khasi people
Origin
1250 BC
1200 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Khasi
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
kha
ISO 639 2/B
chi
kha
ISO 639 3
zho
kha
ISO 639 6
zho
kha
Glottocode
sini1245
khas1269
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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