Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
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
Alphabets in
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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
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’
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
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
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Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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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
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Santali
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
Glottocode
sini1245
sant1410
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Santali language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Santali Difficulty
The Chinese vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Santali time required is 44 weeks.