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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Old German Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit 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)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
शुभः सायंकालः
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
शुभ दुपार
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Not Available
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
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 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
1.2.1 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
1.2.2 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
1.2.3 French Name
1.2.4 German Name
1.3 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
1.4 Ethnicity
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
2.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Sanskrit
2.3.3 Language Position
2.4.2 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
2.5 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic