About Marathi Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken predominantly by Marathi people. It is the official language of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra state. It is also the co-official language in Goa state. The language is also spoken in the union territory of Damaon in western India. Marathi is one of the 22 scheduled languages that are spoken in India. Marathi has 83 million speakers and it ranks 10th in the list of languages. It is spoken by most native speakers in the world. Marathi has millions of native speakers after Hindi-Urdu and Bengali. Marathi has the oldest literature and is inspired by many modern Indian languages. The dialect of Marathi is Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialect. Marathi has exclusive forms of 'we' and uses a three-way gender system.
About Chinese (Simplified) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Chinese is the official language of China and Hong Kong. The simplified characters are one of the major written scripts in China. These characters are not only used in China but other places in the world. Most of the children studying in Malaysia and Singapore all know simplified Chinese. They are also used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Japan. The traditional characters have been a choice in books and texts majorly. However in the modern era it covers the majority of contemporary Chinese text. In China the dialect of Chinese people is known as mandarin. It is studied with simplified characters of Chinese. You will be surprised to know that simplified characters are not used for writing. About 1.3 billion people in the world speak Chinese language.