Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2862
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
82
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2060
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
谢谢
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
晚安
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
晚上好
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
早上好
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
请
амритана
Sorry
遗憾
Амарахь
Bye
再见
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
我爱你
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Excuse Me
原谅我
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Bzyb
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Sadz
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Turkey
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
52.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
71.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
cantonais
abkhaze
German Name
Kantonesisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Abkhaz people
Origin
17th century
c. 1650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Abkhaz
Language Position
128
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
abk
ISO 639 2/B
yue
abk
ISO 639 3
No data available
abk
ISO 639 6
yue
abks
Glottocode
cant1236
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative