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Chinese vs 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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Sanskrit and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Sanskrit vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Sanskrit and Chinese language. History of Sanskrit language states that this language originated in 2000 B.C. whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Sanskrit and Chinese Language History.

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Sanskrit and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Chinese language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Sanskrit vs Chinese Difficulty

The Sanskrit vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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