Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Poland
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Sveiki
Thank You
谢谢
Ačiū
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
晚安
Labanakt
Good Evening
晚上好
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
下午好
Laba diena
Good Morning
早上好
Labas rytas
Please
请
Prašom
Sorry
遗憾
atsiprašau
Bye
再见
Ate
I Love You
我爱你
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
原谅我
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Samogitian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Curonian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
cantonais
lituanien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Lithuanians
Origin
17th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Lithuanian
Language Position
144
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
lit
ISO 639 2/B
yue
lit
ISO 639 3
No data available
lit
ISO 639 6
yue
lit
Glottocode
cant1236
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic