Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Karnataka, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Karnataka, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Goa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
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.
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Telugu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2849
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
814
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2035
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
Thank You
谢谢
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
How Are You?
你好吗？
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
Good Night
晚安
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
Good Evening
晚上好
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
Good Afternoon
下午好
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
Good Morning
早上好
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
Please
请
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
Sorry
遗憾
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
Bye
再见
ಬೈ (Bai)
I Love You
我爱你
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
Excuse Me
原谅我
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Badaga
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00540,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Urali
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
kerala
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,440.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Kurumba
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00220,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million49.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.58 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
French Name
cantonais
kannada
German Name
Kantonesisch
Kannada
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Kannadiga
Origin
17th century
c. 450
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kannada, Kannada
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Kannada
Language Position
131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
kn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
kan
ISO 639 2/B
yue
kan
ISO 639 3
No data available
kan
ISO 639 6
yue
kan
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1305
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-