Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2844
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
817
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2027
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
谢谢
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
你好吗？
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
晚安
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
晚上好
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
下午好
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
早上好
Hach ch'i
Please
请
مهربانی کر
Sorry
遗憾
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
再见
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
我爱你
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
原谅我
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Poguli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Rambani
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
cantonais
kashmiri
German Name
Kantonesisch
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
17th century
12th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Kashmiri
Language Position
123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
kas
ISO 639 2/B
yue
kas
ISO 639 3
No data available
kas
ISO 639 6
yue
kas
Glottocode
cant1236
kash1277
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-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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