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Cantonese
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Hawaii
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2826
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

107
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
Hello

Thank You

谢谢
Thank you

How Are You?

你好吗?
How are you?

Good Night

晚安
Good Night

Good Evening

晚上好
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

下午好
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

早上好
Good Morning

Please

Please

Sorry

遗憾
Sorry

Bye

再见
Bye

I Love You

我爱你
I love you

Excuse Me

原谅我
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
American English

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
United States of America

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
English

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
English

French Name

cantonais
anglais

German Name

Kantonesisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
English people

History

Origin

17th century
5th Century AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Standard English

Language Position

13
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signed English

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
eng

ISO 639 2/B

yue
eng

ISO 639 3

No data available
eng

ISO 639 6

yue
engs

Glottocode

cant1236
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Cantonese and English Alphabets

Cantonese and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and English. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Cantonese and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and English Speaking population

Cantonese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Cantonese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and English Language Codes

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