1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
1.8 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
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
1.11 Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.12 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.
1.13 Similar To
Konkani Language
Chinese Language
1.14 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.1.4 How Many Consonants
6.8 Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
6.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
6.10 Hard to Learn
6.10.1 Language Levels
1.3.3 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
早上好
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kokan
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
5.3 Dialect 2
5.3.1 Where They Speak
5.3.2 How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
5.5 Dialect 3
5.5.1 Where They Speak
5.5.2 How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00NA
1400
96000000
5.6 Total No. Of Dialects
6 How Many People Speak
6.1 How Many People Speak?
71.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
6.2 Speaking Population
3.9 Native Speakers
68.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
1.2.1 Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Kwang Tung Wa
1.2.2 Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
1.2.3 French Name
1.2.4 German Name
1.3 Pronunciation
1.4 Ethnicity
Marathi people
Not Available
2 History
2.1 Origin
10th century
17th century
2.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
No early forms
2.3.2 Standard Forms
Marathi
Standard Cantonese
2.3.3 Language Position
2.3.5 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Not Available
2.4 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available