Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
India, Nepal
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Nepal
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
248
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2322
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
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)
pranam
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Suprabhaat
Please
请 (Qǐng)
kripaya
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
maf karai
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Alavidā
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Madhubani
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
North India
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Khortha
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1015
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
chinois
maithili
German Name
Chinesisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Han
Maithil
Origin
1250 BC
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Maithili
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
mai
ISO 639 2/B
chi
mai
ISO 639 3
zho
mai
ISO 639 6
zho
mai
Glottocode
sini1245
mait1250
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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