Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2041
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
102
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
谢谢
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
你好吗？
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
晚安
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
晚上好
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
下午好
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
早上好
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
请
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
遗憾
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
再见
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
我爱你
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Mappila
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
India
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
cantonais
malayalam
German Name
Kantonesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Malayali
Origin
17th century
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Malayalam
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Malayalam
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mal
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mal
ISO 639 3
No data available
mal
ISO 639 6
yue
mal
Glottocode
cant1236
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic