Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2823
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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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
Kumno
Thank You
谢谢
Khublei
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
晚安
thia sukh
Good Evening
晚上好
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
下午好
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
早上好
khublei
Please
请
Sngewbha
Sorry
遗憾
Map
Bye
再见
khublei
I Love You
我爱你
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
原谅我
map a nga
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Bhoi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
cantonais
khasi
German Name
Kantonesisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Khasi people
Origin
17th century
1200 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Khasi
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
kha
ISO 639 2/B
yue
kha
ISO 639 3
No data available
kha
ISO 639 6
yue
kha
Glottocode
cant1236
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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