Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Adi Johar
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
দয়া করে
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
দুঃখিত
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Hariau
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Mandarin
Where They Speak
India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Wu
Where They Speak
-
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
santal
chinois
German Name
Santali
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Han
Origin
20th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Chinese
Language Position
411
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
zho
ISO 639 2/B
sat
chi
ISO 639 3
sat
zho
ISO 639 6
sat
zho
Glottocode
sant1410
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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