Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2844
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2032
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
sannu
Thank You
谢谢
gode ku
How Are You?
你好吗？
yaya dai
Good Night
晚安
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
晚上好
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
下午好
barka da rana
Good Morning
早上好
mai kyau safe
Please
请
Don Allah
Sorry
遗憾
yi hakuri
Bye
再见
sai anjima
I Love You
我爱你
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
原谅我
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Gaananci
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Ghana
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Niger
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Niger
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
cantonais
haoussa
German Name
Kantonesisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
17th century
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Hausa
Language Position
134
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Hausa
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
hau
ISO 639 2/B
yue
hau
ISO 639 3
No data available
hau
ISO 639 6
yue
hau
Glottocode
cant1236
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional