Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
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
Where They Speak
-
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Chinese
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
Glottocode
sant1410
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating
Santali and Chinese Speaking population
Santali and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Santali and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Santali and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 % 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 Santali and Chinese on Santali vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Santali and Chinese Language Codes
Santali and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Santali and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.