Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Macedonia
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
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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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)
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
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Macedonia
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Macedonia
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
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Macedonian
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Macedonian Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
mk
ISO 639 3
No data available
mkd
Glottocode
cant1236
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ha
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic
All Cantonese and Macedonian Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Macedonian dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Macedonian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Macedonian Dialects are spoken in different Macedonian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Macedonian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Macedonian dialects include: Torlakian , Debar. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Macedonian Speaking population
Cantonese and Macedonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Macedonian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Macedonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Macedonian on Cantonese vs Macedonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Macedonian Language Codes
Cantonese and Macedonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Macedonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.