Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2827
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2018
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
102
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Tere
Thank You
谢谢
aitäh
How Are You?
你好吗？
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
晚安
Head ööd
Good Evening
晚上好
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
下午好
Tere päevast
Good Morning
早上好
Tere hommikust
Please
请
Palun
Sorry
遗憾
Vabandust
Bye
再见
Head aega
I Love You
我爱你
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
原谅我
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Tartu
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Eesti keel
French Name
cantonais
estonien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Estonians
Origin
17th century
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Estonian
Language Position
122
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
est
ISO 639 2/B
yue
est
ISO 639 3
No data available
est
ISO 639 6
yue
est
Glottocode
cant1236
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative