Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Iran
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Hawaii
Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
- 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
Kurdish and Persian
Chinese Language
Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2620
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Salam
您好
Thank You
mana bebahgsh
谢谢
How Are You?
chone tao?
你好吗?
Good Night
jawáin shap
晚安
Good Evening
jawáin begáh
晚上好
Good Afternoon
سلام علیکم
下午好
Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
早上好
Please
Mihrabani kan
请
Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
遗憾
Bye
bye
再见
I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
我爱你
Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Pakistan
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.50 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
بلوچی
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Baluchi
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
baloutchi
cantonais
German Name
Belutschisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[bəˈloʧi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Han Chinese
Origin
19th Century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Balochi
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
391
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Balochi Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bal
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bal
yue
ISO 639 3
bal
No data available
ISO 639 6
bal
yue
Glottocode
balo1260
cant1236
Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-