Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2827
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Kaixo
Thank You
谢谢
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
你好吗？
Zer moduz?
Good Night
晚安
Gabon
Good Evening
晚上好
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
下午好
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
早上好
Egun on
Please
请
Mesedez
Sorry
遗憾
Barkatu
Bye
再见
Agur
I Love You
我爱你
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
原谅我
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
France
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Souletin
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Spain
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Euskara
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
cantonais
basque
German Name
Kantonesisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Basque people
Origin
17th century
c. 1000
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Basque
Language Position
130
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Basque Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
eus
ISO 639 2/B
yue
baq
ISO 639 3
No data available
eus
ISO 639 6
yue
eus
Glottocode
cant1236
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data available
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative