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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Hawaii
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

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.
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.

Similar To

Chinese Language
French and Portuguese Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2821
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2016
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
ciao

Thank You

谢谢
grazie

How Are You?

你好吗?
Come stai?

Good Night

晚安
buonanotte

Good Evening

晚上好
buonasera

Good Afternoon

下午好
buon pomeriggio

Good Morning

早上好
buongiorno

Please

Per Favore

Sorry

遗憾
scusate

Bye

再见
arrivederci

I Love You

我爱你
Ti amo

Excuse Me

原谅我
Scusami

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Romanesco

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Lazio

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Central Italian

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.005,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Tuscan

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million78.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %0.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million64.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million14.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
Italiano

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Italiano

French Name

cantonais
italien

German Name

Kantonesisch
Italienisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[itaˈljaːno]

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Italians

History

Origin

17th century
960 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Italian

Language Position

127
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"

Scope

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Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
it

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
ita

ISO 639 2/B

yue
ita

ISO 639 3

No data available
ita

ISO 639 6

yue
itas

Glottocode

cant1236
ital1282

Linguasphere

No data available
51-AAA-q

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and Italian Alphabets

Cantonese and Italian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Italian. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Cantonese and Italian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Italian languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Italian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Italian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Cantonese and Italian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Italian dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Italian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Italian Dialects are spoken in different Italian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Italian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Italian dialects include: Romanesco , Central Italian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Cantonese and Italian Speaking population

Cantonese and Italian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Italian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Italian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Italian on Cantonese vs Italian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Italian Language Codes

Cantonese and Italian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Italian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.