Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Poland
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2822
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
80
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, 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
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
谢谢
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
你好吗？
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
晚安
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
晚上好
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
下午好
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
早上好
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
请
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
遗憾
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
再见
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
我爱你
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
原谅我
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Israel
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Israel
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
cantonais
hébreu
German Name
Kantonesisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
17th century
1000 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Hebrew
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
heb
ISO 639 2/B
yue
heb
ISO 639 3
No data available
heb
ISO 639 6
yue
heb
Glottocode
cant1236
hebr1246
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic