Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2830
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Ħello
Thank You
谢谢
Grazzi
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kif int?
Good Night
晚安
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
晚上好
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
下午好
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
早上好
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
请
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
遗憾
Skużani!
Bye
再见
Ċaw
I Love You
我爱你
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
原谅我
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Qormi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Malta
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Malta
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not Present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Malti
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Malti
French Name
cantonais
maltais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Maltese
Origin
17th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Maltese
Language Position
125
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mlt
ISO 639 3
No data available
mlt
ISO 639 6
yue
mlt
Glottocode
cant1236
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic