Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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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
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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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
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Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2416
0
32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
-
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Not present
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
100
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
chinois
sanskrit
German Name
Chinesisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Han
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
1250 BC
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Sanskrit
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
san
ISO 639 2/B
chi
san
ISO 639 3
zho
san
ISO 639 6
zho
san
Glottocode
sini1245
sans1269
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic