Countries
Fiji, India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Urdu
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1124
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3323
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Wu
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Yue
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
hindi
chinois
German Name
Hindi
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Han
Origin
7th Century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
51
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
zho
ISO 639 2/B
hin
chi
ISO 639 3
hin
zho
ISO 639 6
hins
zho
Glottocode
hind1269
sini1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating