Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Hawaii
Palau
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2899
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
谢谢
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
你好吗？
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
晚安
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
晚上好
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
下午好
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
早上好
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
请
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
遗憾
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
再见
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
我爱你
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Sanuki
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Hakata
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kansai
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
kansai
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
日本語
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Nihongo
French Name
cantonais
japonais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
17th century
1185
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Japanese
Language Position
18
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Japanese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
yue
jpn
ISO 639 3
No data available
jpn
ISO 639 6
yue
jpn
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic