Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Thailand
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Hai
Thank You
谢谢
terima kasih
How Are You?
你好吗？
Apa khabar?
Good Night
晚安
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
晚上好
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
下午好
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
早上好
Selamat pagi
Please
请
sila
Sorry
遗憾
maaf
Bye
再见
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
我爱你
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
原谅我
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Pekal
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Musi
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
324
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
cantonais
malais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Malaysian people
Origin
17th century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
154
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
msa
ISO 639 2/B
yue
may
ISO 639 3
No data available
zsm
ISO 639 6
yue
may
Glottocode
cant1236
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative