Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2824
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
谢谢
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
你好吗?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
晚安
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
晚上好
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
早上好
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
请
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
遗憾
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
再见
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
我爱你
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Greece
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Griko
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Italy
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
cantonais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Kantonesisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
17th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Greek
Language Position
174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Greek Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ell
ISO 639 2/B
yue
gre
ISO 639 3
No data available
ell
ISO 639 6
yue
ells
Glottocode
cant1236
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic