1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Konkani Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kokan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Vidarbha
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Khandesh
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
71.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
68.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Not Available
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
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating