Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Azerbaijan 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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Turkish
Derived From
-
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2832
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2023
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Salam
Thank You
谢谢
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
你好吗？
necəsən
Good Night
晚安
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
晚上好
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
下午好
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
早上好
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
请
lütfən
Sorry
遗憾
üzr
Bye
再见
xudafiz
I Love You
我爱你
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
原谅我
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Derbent
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Russia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Gazakh
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Baku
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
333
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
cantonais
azéri
German Name
Kantonesisch
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Azerbaijani
Origin
17th century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Azerbaijani
Language Position
138
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
aze
ISO 639 2/B
yue
aze
ISO 639 3
No data available
aze
ISO 639 6
yue
aze
Glottocode
cant1236
azer1255
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative