Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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
Konkani Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
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
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Kokan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Varhadi
Wu
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Yue
Where They Speak
Khandesh
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
4210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.10 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
68.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
marathe
chinois
German Name
Marathi
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
Han
Origin
10th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
171
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mr
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mar
chi
ISO 639 3
mar
zho
ISO 639 6
mar
zho
Glottocode
mara1378
sini1245
Linguasphere
omr
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating