Countries
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
248
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2331
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Kharwa
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Surati
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
108
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
873.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
chinois
goudjrati
German Name
Chinesisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Han
Gujaratis
History
Origin
1250 BC
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
zh
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
guj
ISO 639 2/B
chi
guj
ISO 639 3
zho
guj
ISO 639 6
zho
guj
Glottocode
sini1245
guja1252
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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