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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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10
Rank: 8 (Overall)
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
再见
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Xiguan
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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52.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
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5.3.4 French Name
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chinois
5.3.5 German Name
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Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
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Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th century
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
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1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
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Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
No data available
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
cant1236
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
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Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating

Cantonese and Chinese Alphabets

Cantonese and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Chinese. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Cantonese and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Chinese languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Chinese Speaking population

Cantonese and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Chinese on Cantonese vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Chinese Language Codes

Cantonese and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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