Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tagalog Language
Derived From
-
Spanish Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2023
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Kumusta
Thank You
谢谢
Salamat
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kumusta
Good Night
晚安
magandang gabi
Good Evening
晚上好
Magandang gabi
Good Afternoon
下午好
Magandang hapon
Good Morning
早上好
Magandang umaga
Please
请
Mangyaring
Sorry
遗憾
pinagsisisihan
Bye
再见
Paalam
I Love You
我爱你
Mahal kita
Excuse Me
原谅我
patawarin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Bikol
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00100,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Hiligaynon
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Philippines
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.008,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Waray
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Philippines
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.002,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million90.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million45.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
filipino
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Pilipino
French Name
cantonais
filipino; pilipino
German Name
Kantonesisch
Pilipino
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Filipino people
Origin
17th century
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Filipino
Language Position
134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Filipino Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No Data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
fil
ISO 639 2/B
yue
fil
ISO 639 3
No data available
fil
ISO 639 6
yue
fil
Glottocode
cant1236
fili1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No Data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-