Countries
Fiji, India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Urdu
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
您好
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
谢谢
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
你好吗？
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
晚安
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
下午好
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
早上好
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
请
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
遗憾
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
再见
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
我爱你
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
hindi
cantonais
German Name
Hindi
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Han Chinese
Origin
7th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
51
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
hi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
yue
ISO 639 2/B
hin
yue
ISO 639 3
hin
No data available
ISO 639 6
hins
yue
Glottocode
hind1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-