Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2415
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2341
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Mappila
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
chinois
malayalam
German Name
Chinesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Han
Malayali
Origin
1250 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Malayalam
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
mal
ISO 639 2/B
chi
mal
ISO 639 3
zho
mal
ISO 639 6
zho
mal
Glottocode
sini1245
mala1464
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic