Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Malay language
Derived From
-
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2019
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
107
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Halo
Thank You
谢谢
Terima kasih
How Are You?
你好吗？
Apa kabar?
Good Night
晚安
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
晚上好
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
下午好
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
早上好
Selamat Pagi
Please
请
mohon Untuk
Sorry
遗憾
maaf
Bye
再见
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
我爱你
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
原谅我
Permisi
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Sundanese
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Balinese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
346
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
cantonais
indonésien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Indonesians
Origin
17th century
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Indonesian
Language Position
156
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ind
ISO 639 2/B
yue
ind
ISO 639 3
No data available
ind
ISO 639 6
yue
ind
Glottocode
cant1236
indo1316
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative