Countries
India
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
biḍai
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Not Available
  
French Name
assamais
  
chinois
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Han
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Assamese and Chinese Speaking population
Assamese and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Assamese and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Assamese and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 % 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 Assamese and Chinese on Assamese vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Assamese and Chinese Language Codes
Assamese and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Assamese and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.