Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Commission on the Filipino 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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Kablaaw
Thank You
谢谢
Agyamanak
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kumusta?
Good Night
晚安
Naimbag a rabii
Good Evening
晚上好
Naimbag a sardam
Good Afternoon
下午好
Naimbag a malem
Good Morning
早上好
Naimbag a bigat
Please
请
mangngegda
Sorry
遗憾
Agpakawanak
Bye
再见
Pakada
I Love You
我爱你
Ayayatenka
Excuse Me
原谅我
Maawan-dayawen
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Balangao
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0021,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bontoc
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Philippines
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0041,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not present
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million9.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million9.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ilokano
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ilokano, Iloko
French Name
cantonais
ilocano
German Name
Kantonesisch
Ilokano-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[iːloˈkɑno]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Ilocano people
Origin
17th century
18th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Ilocano
Language Position
194
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Ilocano Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ilo
ISO 639 2/B
yue
ilo
ISO 639 3
No data available
ilo
ISO 639 6
yue
ilo
Glottocode
cant1236
ilok1237
Linguasphere
No data available
31-CBA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-