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
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
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
你好吗？
How are you?
Good Evening
晚上好
Good Evening
Good Afternoon
下午好
Good Afternoon
Good Morning
早上好
Good Morning
I Love You
我爱你
I love you
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
American English
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
United States of America
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Hiberno-English
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Welsh English
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
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
Origin
17th century
5th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard English
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed English
ISO 639 1
No data available
en
ISO 639 3
No data available
eng
Glottocode
cant1236
stan1293
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ABA
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
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.