1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Israel, Mauritius
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
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.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Konkani Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Maharashtrian Konkani
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Kokan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Vidarbha
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Khandesh
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.001,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million71.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million68.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
मराठी (marāṭhī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available