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Cantonese
Cantonese

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Cantonese and Esperanto

Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
East Asia, European Union, South America

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
East Asia, European Union

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Akademio de Esperanto

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.
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Latin and Italian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2832
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2027
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

102
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
Halo

Thank You

谢谢
Dankon

How Are You?

你好吗?
Kiel vi sanas?

Good Night

晚安
Bonan nokton

Good Evening

晚上好
Bonan vesperon

Good Afternoon

下午好
Bonan posttagmezon

Good Morning

早上好
Bonan matenon

Please

Mi petas

Sorry

遗憾
Mi bedaŭras!

Bye

再见
Ĝis poste

I Love You

我爱你
Mi amas vin

Excuse Me

原谅我
Pardonu!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Not present

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Not present

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Not present

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Not present

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.001,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Not present

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Not present

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.002,000,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

30
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million2.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million0.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
Esperanto

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia

French Name

cantonais
espéranto

German Name

Kantonesisch
Esperanto

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[espeˈranto]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Esperanto speakers

History

Origin

17th century
1887

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Esperanto

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Esperanto

Language Position

133
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signuno

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
eo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
epo

ISO 639 2/B

yue
epo

ISO 639 3

No data available
epo

ISO 639 6

yue
epo

Glottocode

cant1236
espe1235

Linguasphere

No data available
51-AAB-da

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Constructed

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative

Cantonese and Esperanto Alphabets

Cantonese and Esperanto Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Esperanto. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Esperanto Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Cantonese and Esperanto languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Esperanto are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and Esperanto Speaking population

Cantonese and Esperanto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Esperanto languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Esperanto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is 0.03 %. 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 Esperanto on Cantonese vs Esperanto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Esperanto Language Codes

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