Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
Hawaii
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
- 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
Konkani Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5228
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
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
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
您好
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
谢谢
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
你好吗？
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
晚安
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
下午好
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
早上好
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
请
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
遗憾
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
再见
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
我爱你
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Kokan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Varhadi
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Khandesh
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
423
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.10 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
68.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
marathe
cantonais
German Name
Marathi
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
Han Chinese
Origin
10th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Marathi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
171
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mr
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mar
yue
ISO 639 3
mar
No data available
ISO 639 6
mar
yue
Glottocode
mara1378
cant1236
Linguasphere
omr
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-