1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Bengali and Assamese
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
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
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)
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00520,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million33.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Odia
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
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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