1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
India, Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
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.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Hindi 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
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
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)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0020,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Pakistan, Punjab, 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 million154.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million100.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million54.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Availble
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
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Punjabi
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
Fusional