Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Henda ho
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Boge Setak’
Please
请 (Qǐng)
দয়া করে
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
দুঃখিত
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Hariau
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Mahali
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
India
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Not present
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
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How Many People Speak
80,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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How Many People Speak
60,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
chinois
santal
German Name
Chinesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Han
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1250 BC
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Santali
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
sat
ISO 639 2/B
chi
sat
ISO 639 3
zho
sat
ISO 639 6
zho
sat
Glottocode
sini1245
sant1410
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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