Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Nepal
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
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Doteli
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nepal
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
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Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
chinois
népalais
German Name
Chinesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Han
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Nepali
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
nepa1254
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative
Chinese and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Nepali language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Nepali Difficulty
The Chinese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.