Countries
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
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Not Available
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
Not Available
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Not Available
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
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)
Dialect 1
Not present
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
French Name
sanskrit
chinois
German Name
Sanskrit
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sans1269
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Chinese language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Chinese Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.