1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.4 National Language
China, Taiwan
India, Nepal
2.5 Second Language
2.6 Speaking Continents
2.7 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.8 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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2.9 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
2.10 Similar To
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Bhojpuri Language
2.11 Derived From
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3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.6 Phonology
3.6.1 How Many Vowels
3.6.3 How Many Consonants
5.3 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
5.4 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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5.5 Hard to Learn
5.5.1 Language Levels
5.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
7.2 Thank You
7.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
7.4 Good Night
7.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
shubh sandhya
7.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
7.7 Good Morning
7.8 Please
7.9 Sorry
7.10 Bye
7.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
7.12 Excuse Me
8 Dialects
8.1 Dialect 1
8.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Nepal
8.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
8.3 Dialect 2
8.3.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
North India
8.3.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
9.4 Dialect 3
9.4.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Deoghar, France
9.4.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
10.8 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million32.00 million
0.13
1200
11.2 Speaking Population
11.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million27.00 million
0.13
873
11.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
11.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
11.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
11.3.4 French Name
11.3.5 German Name
11.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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11.5 Ethnicity
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
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12.2.2 Branch
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12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Maithili
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
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13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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