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Chinese and Sanskrit


Countries

Countries
India   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
5   
10

National Language
India   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Old German Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Prakrit Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
52   
31
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16   
13
24   
19

How Many Consonants
36   
26
23   
13

Scripts
Devanagari   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks   
5
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
कृपया (kripayā)   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Not present   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Not present   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Not Available   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
0   
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
14.10 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
14.10 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Not Available   

French Name
sanskrit   
chinois   

German Name
Sanskrit   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Han   

History

Origin
2000 B.C.   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Not Available   

Branch
Indic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Sanskrit   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
Not Available   
1   
1

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
sa   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
san   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
san   
chi   

ISO 639 3
san   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
sans1269   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
No data available   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Ancient   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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All Sanskrit and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sanskrit and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Sanskrit and Chinese Speaking population

Sanskrit and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sanskrit and Chinese on Sanskrit vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Chinese Language Codes

Sanskrit and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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