Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Galicia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Galicia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
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.
- In Galician language, there are no compound tenses.
- The earliest document in Galician language was written in 1228 which was legal charter for a municipality of Galicia.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Portuguese Language
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2823
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2019
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks28 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Ola
Thank You
谢谢
Grazas
How Are You?
你好吗？
Que tal estás?
Good Night
晚安
Boas noites
Good Evening
晚上好
Boa tarde
Good Afternoon
下午好
Boa tarde
Good Morning
早上好
Bos días
Please
请
Por favor
Sorry
遗憾
Síntoo!
Bye
再见
Adeus
I Love You
我爱你
Ámote
Excuse Me
原谅我
Perdoe!
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Eastern Galician
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
East Galicia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Central Galician
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Central Galicia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Western Galician
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
West Galicia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million2.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million2.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Galego
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Galego, Gallego
French Name
cantonais
galicien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Galicisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ɡaˈleɣo]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Galician people
Origin
17th century
c. 1175
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Galician
Language Position
146
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Galician Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
glg
ISO 639 2/B
yue
glg
ISO 639 3
No data available
glg
ISO 639 6
yue
glg
Glottocode
cant1236
gali1258
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-