Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2031
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Selam
Thank You
谢谢
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
你好吗？
Dehina newot?
Good Night
晚安
Dehna dur
Good Evening
晚上好
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
下午好
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
早上好
i'ndemin adäru
Please
请
i'bakwon
Sorry
遗憾
aznallehu
Bye
再见
tschao
I Love You
我爱你
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
原谅我
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Gondar
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gondar
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Showa
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
cantonais
amharique
German Name
Kantonesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Amharas
Origin
17th century
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Amharic
Language Position
155
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Amharic
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
amh
ISO 639 2/B
yue
amh
ISO 639 3
No data available
amh
ISO 639 6
yue
amh
Glottocode
cant1236
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional