Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
52
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, Oceania
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
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Japanese and Korean Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2411
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2333
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
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Khariboli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Wu
Marwari
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Bundeli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
chinois
hindi
German Name
Chinesisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Han
Hindustani people
Origin
1250 BC
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Hindi
Language Position
15
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
hin
ISO 639 2/B
chi
hin
ISO 639 3
zho
hin
ISO 639 6
zho
hins
Glottocode
sini1245
hind1269
Linguasphere
79-AAA
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic