About Cantonese Language | Cantonese | Alphabets in Cantonese

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

China, Guangdong

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Hawaii

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

Interesting Facts

Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

Chinese Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 10 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 10 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 8 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

您好

Thank You

谢谢

How Are You?

你好吗？

Good Night

晚安

Good Evening

晚上好

Good Afternoon

下午好

Good Morning

早上好

Please

请

Sorry

遗憾

Bye

再见

I Love You

我爱你

Excuse Me

原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou

Where They Speak

outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00

Rank: 13 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Xiguan

Where They Speak

Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00

Rank: 11 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.00

Rank: 10 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million

Rank: 27 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

16.00 %

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

52.00 million

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million

Rank: 15 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

cantonais

German Name

Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese

History

Origin

17th century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese

Language Position

Rank: 1 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese

Scope

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue

ISO 639 2/B

yue

ISO 639 3

No data available

ISO 639 6

yue

Glottocode

cant1236

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Cantonese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Cantonese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Cantonese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Cantonese. Cantonese phonology gives Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. There are 8 vowels and 20 consonants in Cantonese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Cantonese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Cantonese language is given in detail in this section.

All Cantonese countries

Want to explore all Cantonese countries? About Cantonese language serves you with all Cantonese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Cantonese as official language are called as Cantonese countries.

Countries that use Cantonese as their National Language are: China, Guangdong.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Cantonese as second language are: Cantonese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Cantonese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Cantonese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Cantonese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Cantonese language.Learn Cantonese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: 您好
Thank you: 谢谢
Good Morning: 早上好
Good Evening: 晚上好
Good Afternoon: 下午好

All Cantonese Language Codes

Get to know all Cantonese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Cantonese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.