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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

25
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Hawaii
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

-
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2829
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

820
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2020
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

103
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
Hallo

Thank You

谢谢
Mange tak

How Are You?

你好吗?
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

晚安
God nat

Good Evening

晚上好
God aften

Good Afternoon

下午好
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

早上好
God morgen

Please

Please

Sorry

遗憾
Undskyld!

Bye

再见
Farvel

I Love You

我爱你
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

原谅我
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Scanian

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Sweden

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Denmark

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
dansk

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

cantonais
danois

German Name

Kantonesisch
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

17th century
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Rigsdansk

Language Position

118
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signed Danish

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
dan

ISO 639 2/B

yue
dan

ISO 639 3

No data available
dan

ISO 639 6

yue
dan

Glottocode

cant1236
dani1284

Linguasphere

No data available
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional

Cantonese and Danish Alphabets

Cantonese and Danish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Danish. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Cantonese and Danish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Danish 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 Danish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Danish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Danish 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 Danish dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Danish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Danish Dialects are spoken in different Danish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Danish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Danish dialects include: Scanian , Jutlandic. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Danish Speaking population

Cantonese and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Cantonese vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Danish Language Codes

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