Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2838
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2032
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
1012
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
谢谢
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
晚安
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
晚上好
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
早上好
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
请
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
遗憾
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
再见
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
我爱你
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
cantonais
arménien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Armenians
Origin
17th century
late 5th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
114
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Armenian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
hye
ISO 639 2/B
yue
arm
ISO 639 3
No data available
hye
ISO 639 6
yue
hye
Glottocode
cant1236
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data available
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic