Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2831
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2026
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
谢谢
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
晚安
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
晚上好
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
早上好
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
请
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
遗憾
жал (žal)
Bye
再见
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
我爱你
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Torlakian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Debar
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
328
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
cantonais
macédonien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Macedonians
Origin
17th century
2200 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Macedonian
Language Position
145
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mac
ISO 639 3
No data available
mkd
ISO 639 6
yue
mkd
Glottocode
cant1236
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic