Countries
Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Nepal
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Not Available
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2412
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
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
कृपया
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Doteli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Nepal
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.25 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
chinois
népalais
German Name
Chinesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Han
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
History
Origin
1250 BC
19 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Nepali
Language Position
159
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
zh
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
nep
ISO 639 2/B
chi
nep
ISO 639 3
zho
npi
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
nepa1254
Linguasphere
79-AAA
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative