1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, No official status
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
1.9 Similar To
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Maithili and Magahi
1.10 Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
प्रणाम (prannam)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
राम राम (raam raam)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
राम राम (raam raam)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
राम राम (raam raam)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
राम राम (raam raam)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
प्रणाम (prannam)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Caribbean Hindustani
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00380,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million40.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million40.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Bhojpuri
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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