Countries
Fiji, India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
हिन्दी
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Not Available
French Name
hindi
chinois
German Name
Hindi
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Han
Origin
7th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
hins
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Glottocode
hind1269
sini1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Hindi and Chinese 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 Hindi and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hindi and Chinese language. Hindi word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (Namastē) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Hindi Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hindi vs Chinese Difficulty
The Hindi vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hindi Alphabets and Chinese 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 Hindi and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hindi and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hindi is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.