Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2847
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
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
pranam
Thank You
谢谢
dhanyabad
How Are You?
你好吗？
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
晚安
Śubharātri
Good Evening
晚上好
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
下午好
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
早上好
Suprabhaat
Please
请
kripaya
Sorry
遗憾
maf karai
Bye
再见
Alavidā
I Love You
我爱你
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
原谅我
kripaya
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
North India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Khortha
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
cantonais
maithili
German Name
Kantonesisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Maithil
Origin
17th century
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Maithili
Language Position
140
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mai
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mai
ISO 639 3
No data available
mai
ISO 639 6
yue
mai
Glottocode
cant1236
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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