Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Assam, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Assam, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
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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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2845
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks34 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
नमस्कार
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवाद
How Are You?
你好吗？
Nungni khabora ma?
Good Night
晚安
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
Good Evening
晚上好
बोडो
Good Afternoon
下午好
अन्धानि बार
Good Morning
早上好
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
Please
请
अननानै (Onnanwi)
Sorry
遗憾
दु:खित
Bye
再见
Lwrbw
I Love You
我爱你
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
Excuse Me
原谅我
दु:खित
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Assam, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
बड़ो (boṛo)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
French Name
cantonais
bodo
German Name
Kantonesisch
Bodo
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bɔɽo]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
Origin
17th century
1913
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
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Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
-
Language Position
130
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Bodo
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
br
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
brx
ISO 639 2/B
yue
brx
ISO 639 3
No data available
brx
ISO 639 6
yue
brx
Glottocode
cant1236
bodo1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAB
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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