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Sanskrit
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Countries

Countries

India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

Total No. Of Countries

15
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
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia

Regulated By

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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • 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

Old German Language
Japanese and Korean Languages

Derived From

Prakrit Language
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Alphabets

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

20 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
您好 (Nín hǎo)

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
早安 (Zǎo ān)

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
请 (Qǐng)

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
再见 (Zàijiàn)

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
劳驾 (Láojià)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Mandarin

Where They Speak

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China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

How Many People Speak

140,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Wu

Where They Speak

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China, United States of America

How Many People Speak

140,000.0080,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Yue

Where They Speak

-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam

How Many People Speak

140,000.0060,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

010
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million1,051.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million873.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-178.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
中文 (zhōngwén)

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Zhongwen, Hanyu

French Name

sanskrit
chinois

German Name

Sanskrit
Chinesisch

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Han

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
1250 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Standard Chinese

Language Position

231
1 120
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Signed Forms

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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
zh

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
zho

ISO 639 2/B

san
chi

ISO 639 3

san
zho

ISO 639 6

san
zho

Glottocode

sans1269
sini1245

Linguasphere

No data available
79-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Sanskrit and Chinese Alphabets

Sanskrit and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Chinese. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Chinese languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sanskrit and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sanskrit and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sanskrit and Chinese Speaking population

Sanskrit and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sanskrit and Chinese on Sanskrit vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Chinese Language Codes

Sanskrit and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.