Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Iran
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
-
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2834
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2026
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Salam
Thank You
谢谢
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
你好吗？
chone tao?
Good Night
晚安
jawáin shap
Good Evening
晚上好
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
下午好
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
早上好
jawáin sawáh
Please
请
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
遗憾
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
再见
bye
I Love You
我爱你
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
原谅我
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Baluchi
French Name
cantonais
baloutchi
German Name
Kantonesisch
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
17th century
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Balochi
Language Position
139
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
bal
ISO 639 2/B
yue
bal
ISO 639 3
No data available
bal
ISO 639 6
yue
bal
Glottocode
cant1236
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-