Countries
India, No official status
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
02
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Hawaii
Regulated By
-
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3420
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
您好
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
谢谢
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
你好吗？
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
晚安
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
下午好
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
早上好
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
请
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
遗憾
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
再见
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
我爱你
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
16,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
380,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.43 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
bhojpuri
cantonais
German Name
Bhojpuri
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
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
Bhojpuri
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
371
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data Available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bho
yue
ISO 639 3
bho
No data available
ISO 639 6
bho
yue
Glottocode
bhoj1246
cant1236
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-