Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Taiwan
India
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
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2416
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
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 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Namaskar
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Chike
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Maf kor
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Adeus
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Antruz
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Goa
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Not present
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
chinois
konkani
German Name
Chinesisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Han
Konkanis
Origin
1250 BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Kokani
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, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
kok
ISO 639 2/B
chi
kok
ISO 639 3
zho
kok
ISO 639 6
zho
kok
Glottocode
sini1245
goan1235
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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