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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2827
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Halo
Thank You
谢谢
matur nuwun
How Are You?
你好吗？
piye kabare?
Good Night
晚安
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
晚上好
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
下午好
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
早上好
Sugeng énjing
Please
请
matur nuwun
Sorry
遗憾
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
再见
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
我爱你
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
原谅我
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Arekan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
cantonais
javanais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
17th century
450 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Javanese
Language Position
111
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
jav
ISO 639 2/B
yue
jav
ISO 639 3
No data available
jav
ISO 639 6
yue
jav
Glottocode
cant1236
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative